Literary Fiction by People of Color discussion

The Shortlist will be announced on October 24, 2018.
The fiction shortlist will consist of the three books from the 25 books listed below.

Fiction Longlist

Ackerman, Elliot. Waiting for Eden. (Knopf)

Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame. Friday Black. (HMH/Mariner)

Ball, Jesse. Census. (Ecco)

Edugyan, Esi. Washington Black. (Knopf)

Emezi, Akwaeke. Freshwater. (Grove)

Enger, Leif. Virgil Wander. (Grove/Atlantic)

Evans, Diana. Ordinary People. (Norton/Liveright)

Faye, Gaël. Small Country. (Hogarth)

House, Silas. Southernmost. (Algonquin)

Jones, Tayari. An American Marriage. (Algonquin)

Kingsolver, Barbara. Unsheltered. (Harper)

Kushner, Rachel. The Mars Room. (Scribner)

Kwon, R.O. The Incendiaries. (Riverhead)

Makkai, Rebecca. The Great Believers. (Viking)

Miller, Madeline. Circe. (Little, Brown)

Mosley, Walter. John Woman. (Grove)

Ondaatje, Michael. Warlight. (Knopf)

Orange, Tommy. There There. (Knopf)

Powers, Richard. The Overstory. (Norton)

Shteyngart, Gary. Lake Success. (Random)

Sittenfeld, Curtis. You Think It, I’ll Say It. (Random)

Tamirat, Nafkote. The Parking Lot Attendant. (Holt)

Tyler, Anne. Clock Dance. (Knopf)

Winman, Sarah. Tin Man. (Putnam)

Winthrop, Elizabeth. The Mercy Seat. (Grove)

The Nonfiction longlist was also announced here is a link to see the nonfiction longlist:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/new?c...

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2019 Finalists was announced today:

Fiction
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
There There by Tommy Orange

Nonfiction
The Line Becomes A River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy

I'm excited about the three fiction finalists. I've read Washington Black and There There and both were excellent. I'm waiting for my library hold on The Great Believers. I'm also going to be able to attend the award presentation at the ALA Midwinter Conference in Seattle this year, so I hope to get to the nonfiction as well.

How exciting!
You can give us a first hand report.

I have read the fiction finalist and two of the NF finalist (Heavy & Dopesick).
It was not intentional it just happened that way!

Just announced:
The Carnegie Medal for fiction goes to the Great Believers
And nonfiction goes to Heavy: an American Memoir

Here's a link to all of the awards announced last night at the library conference:

https://rusaupdate.org/category/award... (will be updated soon)

Karen -

Thanks for the updates.
I always enjoy the Notable Book List.

Karen Michele wrote: "Just announced:
The Carnegie Medal for fiction goes to the Great Believers
And nonfiction goes to Heavy: an American Memoir"

Congratulations to the winners and the finalists.