2016 may seem like a long time ago but there were some great books published last year that you might have missed. However, it can be challenging to separate the wheat from the chaff and know what to concentrate on. If you’re wondering which books you should try from 2016, why not read the best of the best - and by that we mean titles that have won the prestigious Booker Prize, National Book Awards and the American Library Association Medals?
Here are some of the award-winning books from last year available to check out from the library:
Booker Prize Winner - The Sellout by Paul Beatty
National Book Award Winner for Fiction and the ALA Carnegie Medal for Fiction - The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
National Book Award Winner for Nonfiction - Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
National Book Award Winner for Poetry - The Performance of Becoming Human by Daniel Borzutzky
National Book Award Winner for Young People’s Literature and ALA Printz Award Winner - March: Book Three by Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell
ALA Newbery Medal - The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
ALA Caldecott Medal - Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat by Javaka Steptoe
ALA Carnegie Medal for Nonfiction Winner – Evicted by Matthew Desmond