Finalists have been selected for the 2024 Heartland Booksellers Awards, sponsored by the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association and the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association. Booksellers will now vote for the winners, who will be celebrated at the Heartland Fall Forum October 6-9 in Milwaukee, Wis. The finalists:
Fiction:
James by Percival Everett (Doubleday)
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (Knopf)
The Great Divide by Cristina Henriquez (Ecco)
The Waters by Bonnie Jo Campbell (W.W. Norton)
Nonfiction:
Birding to Change the World by Trish O'Kane (Ecco)
Bite by Bite by Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Ecco)
There's Always This Year by Hanif Abdurraqib (Random House)
Where Rivers Part by Kao Kalia Yang (Atria Books)
Poetry:
A Film in Which I Play Everyone by Mary Jo Bang (Graywolf Press)
I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times by Taylor Byas (Soft Skull Press)
Modern Poetry by Diane Seuss (Graywolf Press)
Organs of Little Importance by Adrienne Chung (Penguin Books)
YA/Middle Grade:
House of Roots and Ruin by Erin A. Craig (Delacorte Press)
MEXIKID by Pedro Martín (Dial)
The Mystery of Locked Rooms by Lindsay Currie (Sourcebooks Young Readers)
This Book Won't Burn by Samira Ahmed (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
Picture Book:
Prak Fills the House by Lauren Emmons (Peachtree)
The Great Lakes by Barb Rosenstock (Knopf Books for Young Readers)
The North Wind and the Sun by Philip C. Stead (Neal Porter Books)
The Rock in My Throat by Kao Kalia Yang (Carolrhoda Books)
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Finalists have been selected in two categories for the 2024 Dayton Literary Peace Prize, honoring "writers whose work demonstrates the power of the written word to foster peace." Winners will receive $10,000, and the first runners-up will receive $5,000. Winners and the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award will be announced in September. Winners, first runners-up, and other finalists wil be honored at an awards ceremony in Dayton, Ohio, the weekend of November 9-10.
The finalists:
Fiction:
A History of Burning by Janika Oza (Grand Central Publishing)
Dust Child by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai (Algonquin Books)
Profit Song by Paul Lynch (Grove Atlantic)
River Sing Me Home by Eleanor Shearer (Berkley)
The Postcard by Anne Berest (Europa Editions)
We Meant Well by Erum Shazia Hasan (ECW Press)
Nonfiction:
An Inconvenient Cop by Edmund Raymond with Jon Sternfeld (Viking)
Built From the Fire by Victor Luckerson (Random House)
All Else Failed by Dana Sachs (Bellevue Literary Press)
Red Memory by Tania Branigan (Faber)
The Talk by Darrin Bell (Holt)
Who Gets Believed? by Dina Nayeri (Catapult)