An Award-Winning Book
Read More Reading Challenge 2018
Envelope, please! Click on the book cover or title below to connect to our catalog to find these award-winning books. Visit our website to learn more about the Read More! 2018 Reading Challenge by Seymour Library.
Sing, Unburied, Sing
by Jesmyn Ward

Living with his grandparents and toddler sister on a Gulf Coast farm, Jojo navigates the challenges of his tormented mother's addictions and his grandmother's terminal cancer before the release of his father from prison prompts a road trip of danger and hope. Winner of the 2018 National Book Award, among many others.
The Moon in the Palace
by Weina Dai Randel

Summoned to the emperor's palace to serve as one of his concubines, Mei, who, after her father's death, needs to support her poverty-stricken family, finds herself in a position to seduce the emperor, but instead falls in love with his son and must fight to gain favor with the ruler of China while protecting the man she loves. Winner of the Mainstream Fiction with a Central Romance category in last year's RITA Awards (Romance Writers of America).
Ararat
by Christopher Golden

When an ancient relic believed to be Noah's Ark is discovered in the aftermath of an avalanche on Mount Ararat in Turkey, a team of investigating scholars, archaeologists and filmmakers find the corpse of a monster on the ship before a massive blizzard traps them on the site with a mysterious predator. This book won the 2017 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel. The awards are presented by the Horror Writers' Association for any work of horror first published in English.
Hollywood Homicide
by Kellye Garrett

After witnessing a deadly hit-and-run, broke actress Dayna investigates and pursues the reward money in an effort to help her parents keep their house, but she soon finds herself wanting justice for the victim even more. Winner of the 2017 Agatha Award for Best First Novel. The Agathas are given to non-graphic, traditional mysteries first published in the United States.
Prairie Fires: The American dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
by Caroline Fraser

A comprehensive historical portrait of Laura Ingalls Wilder draws on unpublished manuscripts, letters, diaries and official records to fill in the gaps in Wilder's official story, sharing lesser-known details about her pioneer experiences while challenging popular misconceptions about how her books were ghostwritten. Winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.
Redshirts
by John Scalzi

Enjoying his assignment with the Xenobiology lab on board the prestigious Intrepid, ensign Andrew Dahl worries about casualties suffered by low-ranking officers during away missions before making a shocking discovery about the starship's actual purpose. The book was chosen as 2013's Best Novel at the Hugo Awards for Science Fiction Achievement as chosen by the World Science Fiction Society.
Tightrope
by Simon Mawer

After surviving Ravensbruck concentration camp, ex-Special Operations agent Marian Sutro, returning to a post-World War II London she barely understands, is drawn into the ambiguities of the Cold War by the man who hijacked her wartime mission to Paris, while trying to make amends for the past. This won the 2017 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction.
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by Andrew Sean Greer

Receiving an invitation to his ex-boyfriend's wedding, Arthur, a failed novelist on the eve of his 50th birthday, embarks on an international journey that finds him falling in love, risking his life, reinventing himself and making connections with the past. The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was awarded to the book this year. 
All the Birds in the Sky
by Charlie Anders

Reunited as adults in the hipster mecca San Francisco as the planet falls apart around them, childhood friends Patricia Delfine, who is magically gifted, and Laurence Armstead, an engineering genius, discover that something bigger than either of them has brought them together to either save the world, or plunge it into a new dark ages. Winner of the Best Novel category of the Nebula Awards of 2016, as voted by the the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
20th Century Ghosts
by Joe Hill

The winner of the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy, and International Horror Guild Awards, a compilation of imaginative, surreal, and macabre short fiction by the author of Heart-Shaped Box includes the tales of Imogene, the legendary ghost of the Rosebud theater, and Francis, an unhappy, hopeless human turned giant locust seeking revenge on his Nevada hometown.
A few more suggestions...
The Haunting of Maddy Clare by Simone St. James (RITA Award - Best First Book, 2013)
Still Life by Louise Penny (Dagger Awards First Crime Novel, 2006)
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (Pulitzer Prize - Fiction, 2017)
The City & the City by China MiƩville (World Fantasy Award, 2010)
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain (L.A. Times Book Prize - Fiction, 2012)
Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom Franklin (Dagger Award - Best Crime Novel, 2011)
IQ by Joe Ide (Shamus Award - Best First Private Eye Novel, 2017)
The Girls by Emma Cline (Shirley Jackson Award, 2016)
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction, 2004)
Trigger Warning by Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Choice Award, 2015)
Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor (Costa Book Award - Novel, 2017)
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James (Man Booker Prize, 2015)
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