Awards 2015 Shortlist Announced!

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction & Nonfiction

Did you vote to help select the shortlist for this years Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction? See March 30 post March Madness for Books!  

Did you pick the titles for the shortlist? Find out below:

Awards Shortlist

Fiction Finalists:

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr 

Nora Webster by Colm Toibin

On Such a Full Sea by Chang-rae Lee  

Nonfiction Finalists:

Just Mercy: a Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson

The Sixth Extinction: an Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin and Sadat at Camp David by Lawrence Wright

Winners will be announced on Saturday, June 27th during the American Library Association's 2015 Annual Conference in San Francisco, CA

Announcing the 2014 Nebula Awards Shortlist ...

The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) 2014 Nebula Award nominees have been announced. "The Nebula Awards are voted on, and presented by, active members of SFWA. Voting will open to SFWA Active members on March 1 and close on March 30." The winners will be announced during the 50^th Annual Nebula Awards Weekend to be held in Chicago, Illinois, June 4 through 7, 2015. 

In the category of NOVEL, the shortlist consists of:

The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison  

Trial by Fire by Charles E. Gannon 

Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie

The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

Coming Home by Jack McDevitt

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer

The full list of nominees in all categories can be found at the SFWA site.

Which title would you vote for?

2015 Andrew Carnegie Longlist Announced

The Longlist for the this year's Andrew Carnegie Medals for Fiction and Nonfiction have been announced. The Andrew Carnegie Medals are "a joint initiative of Carnegie Corporation of New York and the American Library Association" with a committee selecting titles from the most recent Booklist Editors' Choice and RUSA Notable Books List. 

This year's Awards Longlist consists of 43 titles which will be narrowed down to three Fiction and three Nonfiction titles to make up a Shortlist to be announced in April. The winning Fiction and Nonfiction titles will be announced on Saturday, June 27 at the American Library Association's (ALA) 2015 Annual Conference in San Francisco, CA.

Start reading now and see if you can 'pick' the shortlist titles! Maybe after all your reading you will be able to anticipate the 2015 medal winners!