National Book Award Longlists Announced
Are you looking for something new to read? The 2016 National Book Award Longlists have been announced this week for Young People’s Literature, Poetry, Nonfiction and Fiction. Head on over to the National Book Foundation for a complete list!
- Kwame Alexander, Booked (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- Kate DiCamillo, Raymie Nightingale (Candlewick Press)
- John Lewis, Andrew Aydin & Nate Powell (Artist), March: Book Three (Top Shelf)
- Grace Lin, When the Sea Turned to Silver (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
- Anna-Marie McLemore, When the Moon Was Ours (Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin’s Press)
- Meg Medina, Burn Baby Burn (Candlewick Press)
- Sara Pennypacker & Jon Klassen (Illustrator), Pax (Balzer & Bray / HarperCollins)
- Jason Reynolds, Ghost (Atheneum Books for Young Readers / Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing)
- Caren Stelson, Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor’s Story (Carolrhoda Books / Lerner Publishing Group)
- Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star (Delacorte Press / Penguin Random House)
I’ve read a few, some are already on my TBR and I’ll be adding the rest very soon! Enjoy!
