More Book and Media Award Announcements

Sunday evening, January 10th, I monitored Twitter from 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM CST while the Book and Media Awards Ceremony was held in Boston as part of the American Library Association's (ALA) Midwinter conference. I followed up by watching for the official press releases to be put online. (See yesterday's post for information about the Louis Shores Award and the List List)

I found there was representation from my library and other systems in the St. Louis area on a number of committees and have listed them with the pertinent award. Perhaps you know some of these folks? :-)

And now ... here are the rest of RUSA's 2016 Book and Media Awards:. :-)

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction - recognize the best fiction and nonfiction books for adult readers published in the U.S. in the previous year

• Fiction: The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
• NonFiction: Hold Still: A Memoir in Photographs by Sally Mann

Reading List - an annual best-of list comprised of eight different fiction genres for adult readers. (I am particularly fond of this award as I had the honor of serving on the inaugural committee in 2007 (and again in 2008). What a great way to expand your genre reading!)

• Adrenaline: Pretty Girls by Karen Slaughter
• Fantasy: Uprooted by Naomi Novik
• Historical Fiction: Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans
• Horror: The Fifth House of the Heart by Ben Tripp
• Mystery: The Long and Faraway Gone by Lou Berney
• Romance: Taking the Heat by Victoria Dahl
• Science Fiction: Golden Son by Pierce Brown
• Women's Fiction: Re Jane by Patricia Park

Notable Books - makes available to the nation’s readers a list of 25 very good, very readable, and at times very important fiction, nonfiction, and poetry books for the adult reader (Also share a fondness for this award as served on this committee in 2009. A fabulous way to experience literary fiction and nonfiction reading!)

FICTION: 

• Delicious Foods by James Hannaham
• In the Country: Stories by Mia Alvar
• The Tsar of Love and Techno by Anthony Maara
• The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
• The Sellout by Paul Beatty
• Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg
• Black River by S.M. Hulse
• Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson
• A Little Life by Haanya Yanagihara
• The Prophets of Eternal Fjord by Kim Leine
• This is the Life by Alex Shearer
• The Book of Aron by Jim Shepard

NONFICTION:

• Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War by Susan Southard
• The End of Plenty: The Race to Feed a Crowded World by Joel K. Bourne Jr.
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle by Lillian Faderman
• Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson
• The Interstellar Age: Inside the Forty-Year Voyager Mission by Jim Bell
• Give Us the Ballot: THE Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America by Ari Berman
• Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon
• The Wright Brothers by David G. McCullough
• The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery
• M Train by Patti Smith
• Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemary Sullivan

POETRY:

• Bastards of the Reagan Era by Reginald Dwayne Betts
• Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems by Joy Harjo

Dartmouth Medal for excellence in reference - honors the creation of a reference source of outstanding quality and significance

[Serving on committee: Patricia Gregory, Saint Louis University]

• Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Law

Sophie Brody Medal - given to encourage, recognize and commend outstanding achievement in Jewish literature

• The Book of Aron by Jim Shepard

Zora Neale Hurston Award - honors an ALA member who has demonstrated leadership in promoting African-American literature

[Serving on committee: Sue K Dittmar, St. Charles City-County Library District. Glad to see a co-worker on an award committee I also served on in 2009 and again in 2011.Volunteering for a RUSA committee is fun and a great way to learn more about the association!]

• Dr. Florita Bell Griffin for creation of the Little Flower® literacy project

Other awards announced: 

List of Best Historical Materials

Outstanding Business Reference Sources

Best Free Reference Websites

Best of the Best Business Reference Websites

Outstanding Reference Sources
[Committee chair: Annie Fuller, St. Louis County Library; serving on committee: Kara Krekeler, University City Public Library]