Many of you already know that I was a voting member on the Nonfiction Panel for this year's Indie Lit Awards. The winners have been announced, and I will finally have the opportunity to share the reviews of the books I have been reading over the last several months. The winner of the nonfiction indie lit award is:
Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff
The runner up is:
Berlin 1961 by Frederick Kempe
I learned so much from reading this books, as well as the other three that were on the nonfiction short-list. That is why I love nonfiction -- it gives me the opportunity to dive into subjects that I haven't had a chance to learn about before (a valuable experience for someone who changed her college major seven times).
The winners in the other categories are:
Biography/Memoir
Winner: Little Princes by Conor Grennan
Runner-Up: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
Runner-Up: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
GLBTQ
Winner: Nina Here Nor There: My Journey Beyond Gender by Nick Krieger
Runner-Up: Huntress by Malinda Lo
Runner-Up: Huntress by Malinda Lo
Fiction
Winner: Silver Sparrow by Tayari Jones
Runner-Up: Dance Lessons by Aine Greaney
Runner-Up: Dance Lessons by Aine Greaney
Mystery
Winner: A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny
Runner-Up: Fun and Games by Duane Swierczynski
Runner-Up: Fun and Games by Duane Swierczynski
Poetry
Winner: Catalina by Laurie Soriano
Runner-Up: What Looks Like an Elephant by Edward Nudelman
Runner-Up: What Looks Like an Elephant by Edward Nudelman
Speculative Fiction
Winner: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Runner-Up: A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Runner-Up: A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Oh! Thank you for announcing these winners! I love book awards and look forward to pick up a few of these (from my local indie bookstore, of course).
ReplyDeleteOf course. :) Hope you enjoy them!
DeleteOh gracious, so many of these are on my list. I just read A Monster Calls last week, by the very brilliant and my-favorite(-along-with-John-Green) Patrick Ness. So good. Thank you for posting these!
ReplyDeleteA Monster Calls was so heartbreaking and good. It reminds me of my husband who went through a similar situation. I really need to read Chaos Walking -- you have given it such high praise!
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