The 2023 Pulitzer Prize winners have been announced! The Pulitzer Prize, established in 1917 by provisions in the will of newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer, is a prestigious award with 21 categories honoring achievements in journalism, literature, and music. For the first time in its 105-year history, two books were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction! Check them out, along with the other literature winners, through the Talking Book Program:
Fiction DEMON COPPERHEAD by Barbara Kingsolver DB 110786, LB 14284
TRUST by Hernán Díaz DB 107949
History FREEDOM’S DOMINION: A SAGA OF WHITE RESISTANCE TO FEDERAL POWER by Jefferson Cowie DB 112071 (IN PROCESS)
Biography G-MAN: J. EDGAR HOOVER AND THE MAKING OF THE AMERICAN CENTURY by Beverly Gage DB 111434
Memoir or Autobiography STAY TRUE: A MEMOIR by Hua Hsu DB 110669
General Nonfiction HIS NAME IS GEORGE FLOYD: ONE MAN’S LIFE AND THE STRUGGLE FOR RACIAL JUSTICE by Robert Samuels DBC 26540, LB 14083
The social cataloging website for book lovers, Goodreads, has just announced their readers’ Choice Awards for 2021. The Texas Talking Book Program has a good number of them in our collection. Are you looking for a thrilling mystery? Goodreads members chose LAST THING HE TOLD ME by Laura Dave (DB 103326) as their favorite mystery & thriller book for this past year. Are you more interested in non-fiction? CRYING IN H MART: A MEMOIR by Michelle Zauner (DB 103413, LB 13446) was chosen as the best autobiography/memoir while EMPIRE OF PAIN: THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE SACKLER DYNASTY by Patrick Radden Keefe (DB 102965, LB 13410) was selected as the best historical non-fiction book. Perhaps you’ve had too much reality in the last couple of years and would like to relax with a popular romance. Goodreads readers declared PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION by Emily Henry (DB 103191) as their top choice for this category. No matter which genre you enjoy, the bibliophiles at Goodreads have chosen a favorite book published this year. Contact us and we can help you find your next favorite book.
The National Book Awards were established in 1950 to celebrate the best writing in America. Since 1989, they have been overseen by the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to celebrate the best literature in America, expand its audience, and ensure that books have a prominent place in American culture. Although other categories have been recognized in the past, the Awards currently honors the best Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature published each year. For more information on the National Book Awards: https://www.nationalbook.org/
The finalists will be chosen on October 8th and the winners will be selected on November 13th, 2009.
The nominees for this year’s National Book Award in the TBP Collection:
Fiction
FLEISHMAN IS IN TROUBLE BRODESSER-AKNER, TAFFY DB 95416
TRUST EXERCISE CHOI, SUSAN DB 94561
BLACK LEOPARD, RED WOLF JAMES, MARLON DB 93771
OTHER AMERICANS LALAMI, LAILA DB 94629; BR 22697 IN PROCESS
NEED PHILLIPS, HELEN DB 96164
DISAPPEARING EARTH PHILLIPS, JULIA DB 95554; LB 11258
ON EARTH WE’RE BRIEFLY GORGEOUS VUONG, OCEAN DB 95459
NICKEL BOYS WHITEHEAD, COLSON DB 95925
Nonfiction
THICK: AND OTHER ESSAYS COTTOM, TRESSIE MCMILLAN DB 93913
WHAT YOU HAVE HEARD IS TRUE: A MEMOIR OF WITNESS AND RESISTANCE FORCHE, CAROLYN DB 94625
SAY NOTHING: A TRUE STORY OF MURDER AND MEMORY IN NORTHERN IRELAND KEEFE, PATRICK RADDEN DB 94329; LB 11261
HEARTBEAT OF WOUNDED KNEE: NATIVE AMERICA FROM 1890 TO THE PRESENT TREUER, DAVID DB 93988
SOLITARY: UNBROKEN BY FOUR DECADES IN SOLITARY CONFINEMENT: MY STORY OF TRANSFORMATION AND HOPE WOODFOX, ALBERT DB 94597
Poetry
DEAF REPUBLIC: POEMS KAMINSKY, ILYA DB 94920; BR 22694
Translated Literature
MEMORY POLICE OGAWA, YOKO DB 95999
DRIVE YOUR PLOW OVER THE BONES OF THE DEAD TOKARCZUK, OLGA DB 96156
Young People’s Literature
UNDEFEATED ALEXANDER, KWAME BR 22617
SHOUT: A POETRY MEMOIR ANDERSON, LAURIE HALSE DB 94454; LB 11417
PATRON SAINTS OF NOTHING RIBAY, RANDY DB 96003
1919: THE YEAR THAT CHANGED AMERICA SANDLER, MARTIN W. DB 94368
