Best Adult Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Moshe integrated his theater and where Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. When the state came looking for a deaf boy to institutionalize him, it was Chona and Nate Timblin, the Black janitor at Moshe\u2019s theater and the unofficial leader of the Black community on Chicken Hill, who worked together to keep the boy safe.<\/em><\/p>\n As these characters\u2019 stories overlap and deepen, it becomes clear how much the people who live on the margins of white, Christian America struggle and what they must do to survive. When the truth is finally revealed about what happened on Chicken Hill and the part the town\u2019s white establishment played in it, McBride shows us that even in dark times, it is love and community\u2014heaven and earth\u2014that sustain us.<\/em> – Riverhead Books<\/p>\n In the spring of 2020, Lara\u2019s three daughters return to the family’s orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.<\/em>\u00a0 – Harper<\/p>\n Best Adult Nonfiction<\/strong><\/p>\n On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty\u2019s Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain.\u00a0While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as \u201cthe prize of all the oceans,\u201d it had wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The men, after being marooned for months and facing starvation, built the flimsy craft and sailed for more than a hundred days, traversing\u00a0nearly 3,000\u00a0miles of storm-wracked seas. They were greeted as heroes.<\/em><\/p>\n But then \u2026 six months later, another, even more decrepit craft landed on the coast of Chile. This boat contained just three castaways, and they told a very different story.\u00a0The thirty sailors who landed in Brazil were not heroes \u2013 they were mutineers. The first group responded with countercharges of their own, of a tyrannical and murderous senior officer and his henchmen. It became clear that while stranded on the island the crew had fallen into anarchy, with warring factions fighting for dominion over the barren wilderness. As accusations of treachery and murder flew, the Admiralty convened a court martial to determine who was telling the truth. The stakes were life-and-death\u2014for whomever the court found guilty could hang.<\/em> – Doubleday<\/p>\n Best Young Adult Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n After centuries of sleep, the gods are warring again. But eighteen-year-old Iris Winnow just wants to hold her family together. Her mother is suffering from addiction and her brother is missing from the front lines. Her best bet is to win the columnist promotion at the Oath Gazette.<\/em><\/p>\n To combat her worries, Iris writes letters to her brother and slips them beneath her wardrobe door, where they vanish\u2014into the hands of Roman Kitt, her cold and handsome rival at the paper. When he anonymously writes Iris back, the two of them forge a connection that will follow Iris all the way to the front lines of battle: for her brother, the fate of mankind, and love.<\/em> – Wednesday Books<\/p>\n Bolivian-Argentinian Inez Olivera belongs to the glittering upper society of nineteenth century Buenos Aires, and like the rest of the world, the town is steeped in old world magic that\u2019s been largely left behind or forgotten. Inez has everything a girl might want, except for the one thing she yearns the most: her globetrotting parents\u2014who frequently leave her behind.<\/em><\/p>\n When she receives word of their tragic deaths, Inez inherits their massive fortune and a mysterious guardian, an archeologist in partnership with his Egyptian brother-in-law. Yearning for answers, Inez sails to Cairo, bringing her sketch pads and a golden ring her father sent to her for safekeeping before he died. But upon her arrival, the old world magic tethered to the ring pulls her down a path where she soon discovers there\u2019s more to her parent\u2019s disappearance than what her guardian led her to believe.<\/em><\/p>\n With her guardian\u2019s infuriatingly handsome assistant thwarting her at every turn, Inez must rely on ancient magic to uncover the truth about her parent\u2019s disappearance\u2014or risk becoming a pawn in a larger game that will kill her. –\u00a0<\/em>Wednesday Books<\/p>\n Best Audiobook<\/strong><\/p>\n A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past\u2014the family tragedy that marred her adolescence, her four largely miserable years at a New Hampshire boarding school, and the murder of her former roommate, Thalia Keith, in the spring of their senior year. Though the circumstances surrounding Thalia\u2019s death and the conviction of the school\u2019s athletic trainer, Omar Evans, are hotly debated online, Bodie prefers\u2014needs\u2014to let sleeping dogs lie.<\/em><\/p>\n But when the Granby School invites her back to teach a course, Bodie is inexorably drawn to the case and its increasingly apparent \ufb02aws. In their rush to convict Omar, did the school and the police overlook other suspects? Is the real killer still out there? As she falls down the very rabbit hole she was so determined to avoid, Bodie begins to wonder if she wasn\u2019t as much of an outsider at Granby as she\u2019d thought\u2014if, perhaps, back in 1995, she knew something that might have held the key to solving the case.<\/em> – Penguin Books<\/p>\n Best Debut Author<\/strong><\/p>\n Maya was a high school senior when her best friend, Aubrey, dropped dead in front of the enigmatic man named Frank whom they\u2019d been spending time with all summer.<\/em> Best Diverse Author<\/strong><\/p>\n In remote northern Canada, a team led by a visionary American architect is break\u00ading ground on a building project called Camp Zero, intended to be the beginning of a new way of life. A clever and determined young woman code-named Rose is offered a chance to join the Blooms, a group hired to entertain the men in camp\u2014but her real mission is to secretly monitor the mercurial architect in charge. In return, she\u2019ll receive a home for her climate-displaced Korean immigrant mother and herself.<\/em><\/p>\n Rose quickly secures the trust of her target, only to discover that everyone has a hidden agenda, and nothing is as it seems. Through skill\u00adfully braided perspectives, including those of a young professor longing to escape his wealthy family and an all-woman military research unit struggling for survival at a climate station, the fate of Camp Zero\u2019s inhabitants reaches a stunning crescendo.<\/em> – Atria Books<\/p>\n Best Comic\/Graphic Novel<\/strong><\/p>\n Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn\u2019t have a realistic water gun. She said she feared for his safety, that police tend to think of little Black boys as older and less innocent than they really are.<\/em><\/p>\n Through evocative illustrations and sharp humor, Bell examines how The Talk shaped intimate and public moments from childhood to adulthood. While coming of age in Los Angeles\u2014and finding a voice through cartooning\u2014Bell becomes painfully aware of being regarded as dangerous by white teachers, neighbors, and police officers and thus of his mortality. Drawing attention to the brutal murders of African Americans and showcasing revealing insights and cartoons along the way, he brings us up to the moment of reckoning when people took to the streets protesting the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. And now Bell must decide whether he and his own six-year-old son are ready to have The Talk.<\/em> – Henry Holt and Co.<\/p>\n Best Memoir & Autobiography<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cCan I kiss you?\u201d\u00a0It was two months before the world premiere of\u00a0Juno, and Elliot Page was in his first ever queer bar. The hot summer air hung heavy around him as he looked at her. And then it happened. In front of everyone. A previously unfathomable experience. Here he was on the precipice of discovering himself as a queer person, as a trans person. Getting closer to his desires, his dreams, himself, without the repression he\u2019d carried for so long. But for Elliot, two steps forward had always come with one step back.<\/em><\/p>\n With Juno\u2019s massive success, Elliot became one of the world\u2019s most beloved actors. His dreams were coming true, but the pressure to perform suffocated him. He was forced to play the part of the glossy young starlet, a role that made his skin crawl, on and off set. The career that had been an escape out of his reality and into a world of imagination was suddenly a nightmare.<\/em><\/p>\n As he navigated criticism and abuse from some of the most powerful people in Hollywood, a past that snapped at his heels, and a society dead set on forcing him into a binary, Elliot often stayed silent, unsure of what to do. Until enough was enough.<\/em> – Flatiron Books<\/p>\n Best Cookbook<\/strong><\/p>\n Packed with practical advice and scientific background, and an almost endless assortment of recipe variations, along with tips, guidance, and how-tos,\u00a0Start Here\u00a0is culinary school\u2014without the student loans.<\/em> – Knopf<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n In his debut cookbook, larger-than-life personality Dan Pelosi offers up a warm hug of home cooking, sharing both comfort food and connection with 101 of his nearest and dearest Italian American recipes. Some have been passed down through his family, and others have been cooked up from scratch\u2014but all are made with love and accompanied by fun, meaningful stories to warm your heart while filling your belly. Read how Bimpy (the 100-year-old grandpa the internet loves to love!) smuggled homemade subs into Yankee Stadium, then craft your ultimate\u00a0Big Italian Sandwich. Relive the memory of Dan learning how to make his friend\u2019s mom\u2019s stuffed chicken cutlets in their Jersey Shore house (and getting himself adopted into their family), then level up with\u00a0Prosciutto & Mozzarella\u2013Stuffed Chicken Parm. Learn how Dan\u2019s mom would spring him out of school before the final bell (just to preheat the oven), then make your own\u00a0Early Dismissal Pot Roast. And rewind to the beginning of Dan\u2019s relationship with his boyfriend, Gus, then recreate the\u00a0Zabaglione\u00a0(and the romantic Cheesecake Factory ambiance) that inspired their first \u201cI love you.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n In addition to the staple chapters like Eggs, Appetizers, Pasta, Meat & Fish, and Sweets, you\u2019ll also find deep dives on Italian food recipes like Dough and Marinara, presented with hero recipes you can spin into all kinds of deliciousness. (Don\u2019t worry\u2014his viral Vodka Sawce is here!) Also sprinkled throughout this recipe book are Grossy\u2019s Guides to cooking, cleaning, organizing, and everything you need to become intuitive in your kitchen.<\/em><\/p>\n Approachable and tasty, Dan\u2019s recipes are meant to be shared with the ones you love. Set the table, grab a chair, roll up your sleeves . . . now\u00a0LET\u2019S EAT!<\/em> – Union Square & Co.<\/p>\n Best Mystery<\/strong><\/p>\n Masterfully blending elements of psychological suspense and true crime, Jessica Knoll\u2014author of the bestselling novel\u00a0Luckiest Girl Alive\u00a0and the writer behind the Netflix adaption starring Mila Kunis\u2014delivers a new and exhilarating thriller in\u00a0Bright Young Women.\u00a0The book opens on a Saturday night in 1978, hours before a soon-to-be-infamous murderer descends upon a Florida sorority house with deadly results. The lives of those who survive, including sorority president and key witness, Pamela Schumacher, are forever changed. Across the country, Tina Cannon is convinced her missing friend was targeted by the man papers refer to as the All-American Sex Killer\u2014and that he\u2019s struck again. Determined to find justice, the two join forces as their search for answers leads to a final, shocking confrontation.<\/em> – Simon & Schuster \/ Marysue Rucci Books<\/p>\n Best Romance<\/strong><\/p>\n Longtime personal assistant\u00a0Georgie\u00a0Mulcahy has made a career out of putting others before herself. When an unexpected upheaval sends her away from her hectic job in L.A. and back to her hometown, Georgie\u00a0must confront an uncomfortable truth: her own wants and needs have always been a disconcertingly blank page.<\/em><\/p>\n But then\u00a0Georgie\u00a0comes across\u00a0a forgotten artifact\u2014a \u201cfriendfic\u201d diary she wrote as a teenager, filled with possibilities she once imagined. To an overwhelmed\u00a0Georgie, the diary\u2019s simple, small-scale ideas are a lifeline\u2014a guidebook for getting started on a new path.<\/em><\/p>\n Georgie\u2019s plans hit a snag when she comes face to face with an unexpected roommate\u2014Levi Fanning, onetime town troublemaker and current town hermit. But this quiet, grouchy man is more than just his reputation, and he offers to help Georgie with her quest. As the two make their way through her wishlist, Georgie begins to realize that what she truly wants might not be in the pages of her diary after all, but right by her side\u2014if only they can both find a way to let go of the pasts that hold them back.\u00a0<\/em> – Kensington<\/p>\n New York City, 1959<\/em><\/p>\n Nick Russo has worked his way from a rough Brooklyn neighborhood to a reporting job at one of the city\u2019s biggest newspapers. But the late 1950s are a hostile time for gay men, and Nick knows that he can\u2019t let anyone into his life. He just never counted on meeting someone as impossible to say no to as Andy.<\/em><\/p>\n Andy Fleming\u2019s newspaper-tycoon father wants him to take over the family business. Andy, though, has no intention of running the paper. He\u2019s barely able to run his life\u2014he\u2019s never paid a bill on time, routinely gets lost on the way to work, and would rather gouge out his own eyes than deal with office politics. Andy agrees to work for a year in the newsroom, knowing he\u2019ll make an ass of himself and hate every second of it.<\/em><\/p>\n Except, Nick Russo keeps rescuing Andy: showing him the ropes, tracking down his keys, freeing his tie when it gets stuck in the ancient filing cabinets. Their unlikely friendship soon sharpens into feelings they can\u2019t deny. But what feels possible in secret\u2014this fragile, tender thing between them\u2014seems doomed in the light of day. Now Nick and Andy have to decide if, for the first time, they\u2019re willing to fight.<\/em> – Cat Sebastian<\/p>\n Best Fantasy<\/strong><\/p>\n Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general\u2014also known as her tough-as-talons mother\u2014has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre:\u00a0dragon riders<\/span>.<\/em><\/p>\n But when you\u2019re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away…because dragons don\u2019t bond to \u201cfragile\u201d humans. They incinerate them.<\/em><\/p>\n With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother\u2019s daughter\u2014like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant.<\/em><\/p>\n She\u2019ll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise.<\/em><\/p>\n Yet, with every day that passes, the war outside grows more deadly, the kingdom’s protective wards are failing, and the death toll continues to rise. Even worse, Violet begins to suspect leadership is hiding a terrible secret.<\/em><\/p>\n Friends, enemies, lovers. Everyone at Basgiath War College has an agenda\u2014because once you enter, there are only two ways out:\u00a0graduate or die<\/span>.<\/em> – Rebecca Yarros<\/p>\n Best Romantasy<\/strong><\/p>\n Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College\u2014Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky.<\/em><\/p>\n Now the\u00a0real\u00a0training begins, and Violet\u2019s already wondering how she\u2019ll get through. It\u2019s not just that it\u2019s grueling and maliciously brutal, or even that it\u2019s designed to stretch the riders\u2019 capacity for pain beyond endurance. It\u2019s the new vice commandant, who\u2019s made it his personal mission to teach Violet\u00a0exactly\u00a0how powerless she is\u2013unless she betrays the man she loves.<\/em><\/p>\n Although Violet\u2019s body might be weaker and frailer than everyone else\u2019s, she still has her wits\u2014and a will of iron. And leadership is forgetting the most important lesson Basgiath has taught her:\u00a0Dragon riders make their own rules.<\/em><\/p>\n But a determination to survive won\u2019t be enough this year.<\/em><\/p>\n Because Violet knows the real secret hidden for centuries at Basgiath War College\u2014and nothing, not even dragon fire, may be enough to save them in the end.<\/em> – Rebecca Yarros<\/p>\n Best Science Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n Am I making it worse? I think I’m making it worse.<\/em><\/p>\n Following the events in\u00a0Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there\u2019s an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if Barish-Estranza can\u2019t have the planet, they\u2019re sure as hell not leaving without\u00a0something. If that something just happens to be an entire colony of humans, well, a free workforce is a decent runner-up prize.<\/em><\/p>\n But there\u2019s something wrong with Murderbot; it isn\u2019t running within normal operational parameters. ART\u2019s crew and the humans from Preservation are doing everything they can to protect the colonists, but with Barish-Estranza\u2019s SecUnit-heavy persuasion teams, they\u2019re going to have to hope Murderbot figures out what\u2019s wrong with itself, and fast!<\/em><\/p>\n Yeah, this plan is… not going to work.<\/em> – Tordotcom<\/p>\n Best Historical Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n Let Us Descend\u00a0describes a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. A journey that is as beautifully rendered as it is heart wrenching, the novel is \u201c[t]he literary equivalent of an open wound from which poetry pours\u201d (NPR).<\/em><\/p>\n Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader\u2019s guide. As she struggles through the miles-long march, Annis turns inward, seeking comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother. Throughout, she opens herself to a world beyond this world, one teeming with spirits: of earth and water, of myth and history; spirits who nurture and give, and those who manipulate and take. While Annis leads readers through the descent, hers is ultimately a story of rebirth and reclamation.<\/em> – Scribner<\/p>\n Best Book Club Pick<\/strong><\/p>\n Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars. But Athena\u2019s a literary darling. June Hayward is literally nobody. Who wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks.<\/em><\/p>\n So when June witnesses Athena\u2019s death in a freak accident, she acts on impulse: she steals Athena\u2019s just-finished masterpiece, an experimental novel about the unsung contributions of Chinese laborers during World War I.<\/em><\/p>\n So what if June edits Athena\u2019s novel and sends it to her agent as her own work? So what if she lets her new publisher rebrand her as Juniper Song\u2014complete with an ambiguously ethnic author photo? Doesn\u2019t this piece of history deserve to be told, whoever the teller? That\u2019s what June claims, and the\u00a0New York Times\u00a0bestseller list seems to agree.<\/em><\/p>\n But June can\u2019t get away from Athena\u2019s shadow, and emerging evidence threatens to bring June\u2019s (stolen) success down around her. 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<\/a>Winner:\u00a0The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store<\/em><\/a> by James McBride<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/tom-lake.jpg?resize=150%2C227&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Honorable Mention:\u00a0Tom Lake<\/a> <\/em>by Ann Patchett<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/the-wager.jpg?resize=150%2C228&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Winner:\u00a0The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder<\/em><\/a>\u00a0by David Grann<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/divine-rivals.jpg?resize=150%2C228&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Winner:\u00a0Divine Rivals <\/em><\/a>by Rebecca Ross<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/what-the-river-knows.jpg?resize=150%2C228&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Honorable Mention:\u00a0What the River Knows<\/em><\/a> by Isabel Iba\u00f1ez<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/i-have-some-questions-for-you.jpg?resize=150%2C227&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Winner:\u00a0I Have Some Questions for You<\/em><\/a> by Rebecca Makkai<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/the-house-in-the-pines.jpg?resize=150%2C227&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Winner:\u00a0The House in the Pines<\/em><\/a> by Ana Reyes<\/p>\n
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\nSeven years later, Maya lives in Boston with a loving boyfriend and is kicking the secret addiction that has allowed her to cope with what happened years ago, the gaps in her memories, and the lost time that she can\u2019t account for. But her past comes rushing back when she comes across a recent YouTube video in which a young woman suddenly keels over and dies in a diner while sitting across from none other than Frank. Plunged into the trauma that has defined her life, Maya heads to her Berkshires hometown to relive that fateful summer\u2014the influence Frank once had on her and the obsessive jealousy that nearly destroyed her friendship with Aubrey.<\/em>
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\nAt her mother\u2019s house, she excavates fragments of her past and notices hidden messages in her deceased Guatemalan father\u2019s book that didn\u2019t stand out to her earlier. To save herself, she must understand a story written before she was born, but time keeps running out, and soon, all roads are leading back to Frank\u2019s cabin. . . .<\/em> – Dutton<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/camp-zero.jpg?resize=150%2C228&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Winner:\u00a0Camp Zero<\/em><\/a> by Michelle Min Sterling<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/the-talk.jpg?resize=150%2C211&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Winner:\u00a0The Talk<\/em><\/a> by Darrin Bell<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/pageboy.jpg?resize=150%2C233&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Winner:\u00a0Pageboy<\/em><\/a> by Elliot Page<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/start-here.jpg?resize=150%2C194&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Winner: Start Here: Instructions for becoming a better cook<\/a> <\/em>by Sohla El-Waylly<\/p>\n\n
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<\/a>Honorable Mention:\u00a0Let’s Eat: 101 recipes to fill your heart & home<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>by Dan Pelosi<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/vera-wongs-unsolicited-advice-for-murderers.jpg?resize=150%2C232&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Winner:\u00a0Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers<\/em><\/a> by Jesse Q. Sutanto<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/bright-young-women.jpg?resize=150%2C228&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Winner:\u00a0Bright Young Women<\/em> <\/a>by Jessica Knoll<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/georgie-all-along.jpg?resize=150%2C224&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Winner:\u00a0Georgie, All Along<\/em><\/a> by Kate Clayborn<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/we-could-be-so-good.jpg?resize=150%2C225&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Honorable Mention:\u00a0We Could Be So Good<\/em><\/a> by Cat Sebastian<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/fourth-wing1.jpg?resize=150%2C226&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Winner:\u00a0Fourth Wing<\/em><\/a> by Rebecca Yarros<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/iron-flame.jpg?resize=150%2C226&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Winner:\u00a0Iron Flame <\/em><\/a>by Rebecca Yarros<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/system-collapse.jpg?resize=150%2C240&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Winner:\u00a0System Collapse<\/em><\/a> by Martha Wells<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/let-us-descend1.jpg?resize=150%2C231&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Winner:\u00a0Let Us Descend<\/em><\/a> by Jesmyn Ward<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/yellowface1.jpg?resize=150%2C227&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Winner:\u00a0Yellowface<\/em><\/a> by R.F. Kuang<\/p>\n