For the month of October, we’re talking about our favorite graphic novels and comics! But first, it’s time to talk about the most wonderful time of the year–award season!! AND check out all the new books we’re excited about for this fall.
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National Book Awards
Chris Bachelder, The Throwback Special (W. W. Norton & Company)
Garth Greenwell, What Belongs to You (Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Macmillan)
Adam Haslett,Imagine Me Gone(Little, Brown and Company/Hachette Book Group)
Paulette Jiles, News of the World (William Morrow/HarperCollinsPublishers)
Karan Mahajan,The Association of Small Bombs (Viking Books/Penguin Random House)
Elizabeth McKenzie, The Portable Veblen (Penguin Press/Penguin Random House)
Lydia Millet, Sweet Lamb of Heaven (W. W. Norton & Company)
Brad Watson, Miss Jane (W. W. Norton & Company)
Colson Whitehead,The Underground Railroad(Doubleday/Penguin Random House)
Jacqueline Woodson,Another Brooklyn(Amistad/HarperCollinsPublishers)
Kirkus Award for Fiction
Imagine Me Goneby Adam Haslett
Carousel Court by Joe McGinniss Jr.
The Sport of Kings by C.E. Morgan
Barkskinsby Annie Proulx
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Man Booker Shortlist
Paul Beatty (US) The Sellout (Oneworld)
Deborah Levy (UK) Hot Milk(Hamish Hamilton)
Graeme Macrae Burnet (UK) His Bloody Project (Contraband)
Ottessa Moshfegh (US)Eileen (Jonathan Cape)
David Szalay (Canada-UK) All That Man Is (Jonathan Cape)
Madeleine Thien (Canada) Do Not Say We Have Nothing (Granta Books)
Books Mentioned in this Episode
Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton
Ms Marvelby G. Willow Wilson
Nimonaby Noelle Stevenson
Fun Home by Alison Bechtel
This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki
Giants Days by John Allison
New Books
I’ll Tell You In Person by Chloe Caldwell
The Mothers by Brit Bennett
Wants vs The World by Jade Chang
Swing Time by Zadie Smith
Hag-seed by Margaret Atwood
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