2016 National Book Award Winners
- Fiction: The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead [available in East Library]
- Nonfiction: Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, by Ibram X. Kendi [available in Central Library]
- Young People's Literature: March: Book Three, by John Lewis & Andrew Aydin w/illustrations by Nate Powell [available in East Library]
- Poetry: The Performance of Being Human, by Daniel Borzutzky [coming soon!]
ETHS Libraries also has copies of several of the nominees that were short- and long-listed for the award, including the following*:
- Another Brooklyn, by Jacqueline Woodson
- Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War, by Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck, by Adam Cohen [available in CL]
- The Sun Is Also a Star, by Nicola Yoon
- Booked, by Kwame Alexander
- Burn Baby Burn, by Meg Medina
Click on the 'Read More' link (below right) to see footage from the awards ceremony of co-authors (and friends of ETHS!) John Lewis and Andrew Aydin accepting the award, along with illustrator Nate Powell.