{"id":6719,"date":"2024-11-04T12:40:27","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T18:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/?p=6719"},"modified":"2024-11-04T12:40:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T18:40:28","slug":"kirkus-prize-finalists-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/2024\/11\/04\/kirkus-prize-finalists-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirkus Prize Finalists 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Since 2014, the Kirkus Prize has been given annually by Kirkus Reviews to books of exceptional merit. The finalists were announced on August 28, and the winners were announced via livestream on the Kirkus Reviews YouTube page on Wednesday, October 16. Here are some of the finalists for 2024 that are in the TBP collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/prize\/2024\/\">Kirkus Prize website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Fiction<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>JAMES by Percival Everett (DB 120063, BR 25513 IN PROCESS)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>MIGHTY RED by Louise Erdrich (IN PROCESS)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>PLAYGROUND by Richard Powers (IN PROCESS)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>PROPHET SONG by Paul Lynch (DB 119629)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Nonfiction<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>ACHILLES TRAP: SADDAM HUSSEIN, THE C.I.A., AND THE ORIGINS OF AMERICA\u2019S INVASION OF IRAQ by Steve Coll (DB 119811)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>CHALLENGER: A TRUE STORY OF HEROISM AND DISASTER ON THE EDGE OF SPACE by Adam Higginbotham (DB 122096)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>GARDEN AGAINST TIME: IN SEARCH OF A COMMON PARADISE by Olivia Laing (DB 123842 IN PROCESS)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Young Adult<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>BRIGHT RED FRUIT by Safia Elhillo (DB 119614)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>GATHER by Kenneth Cadow (DB 116996, BR 25292 IN PROCESS)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Middle Grade<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>SHARK TEETH by Sherri Winston (DB 123474)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>WE WHO PRODUCE PEARLS by Joanna Ho (DB 123617 IN PROCESS)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Younger Readers<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>THERE WAS A PARTY FOR LANGSTON by Jason Reynolds (DB 119850, BR IN PROCESS)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2014, the Kirkus Prize has been given annually by Kirkus Reviews to books of exceptional merit. The finalists were announced on August 28, and the winners were announced via livestream on the Kirkus Reviews YouTube page on Wednesday, October &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/2024\/11\/04\/kirkus-prize-finalists-2024\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[220,304,37],"tags":[506,547,916,917,918,333,4,9],"class_list":["post-6719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-lists","category-literary-awards","category-readers-advisory-2","tag-book-lists","tag-kirkus-prize","tag-kirkus-prize-2024","tag-kirkus-prize-finalists","tag-kirkus-prize-finalists-2024","tag-literary-awards","tag-reader-advisory","tag-readers-advisory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6719"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6728,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6719\/revisions\/6728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}