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Book Award Winners June 2024
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![](https://www.libraryaware.com/1112/Files/AnonymousDisplayWithCrop/0ab0a1e0-36e0-4d60-a3b8-063dff387ae8?containerHeight=147&containerWidth=336&scaledHeight=147&scaledWidth=221&verticalOffset=0&horizontalOffset=57&quality=95&dpi=120) “I’ve always thought that a good book should be either the entry point inward, to learn about yourself, or a door outward, to open you up to new worlds.” ― Taylor Jenkins Reid
Welcome to our newest issue of the Book Award Winners newsletter. This quarterly newsletter provides reading suggestions of celebrated titles both new and old. All titles are available in print through the Forsyth County library system, and some are available for immediate download in e-book or audiobook format on your phone or tablet. Download the Libby and Hoopla apps or ask a librarian about our NC Digital Library for more information.
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Night Watch
by Jayne Anne Phillips
In 1874, in the wake of the Civil War, 12-year-old ConaLee and her mother, Eliza, who hasn't spoken in more than a year, seek refuge in a West Virginia mental asylum where they get swept up in the life of the facility—and the mystery behind the man they call the Night Watch.
2024 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction
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Glory Be
by Danielle Arceneaux
Suspicious and doubting, Glory Brussard decides to investigate after learning that her best friend, a nun beloved by her Lafayette, Louisiana community, has died mysteriously and her death has been ruled a suicide by the authorities.
2024 The Lilian Jackson Braun Memorial Award
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To Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill BlackgooseRevered as a Nampeshiweisit, a person in a unique relationship with a dragon, by her people, 15-year-old Indigenous girl Anequs, at odds with the “approved” way of doing things, is forced by Anglish conquerors to attend a proper dragon school– and if she cannot succeed there, her dragon will be killed.
2024 Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction
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We Could Be So Good
by Cat Sebastian
In the late 1950s, a hostile time for gay men, reporter Nick Russo forms an unlikely friendship with Andy Fleming, the son of a newspaper-tycoon, and as they work closely together, they fall in love and must decide if, for the first time, they're willing to fight.
2024 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Romance
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The Sense of an Ending
by Julian Barnes
This award-winning novel follows a middle-aged man as he reflects on a past he thought was behind him, until he is presented with a legacy that forces him to reconsider his decisions and revise his place in the world.
2011 Booker Prize Winner
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Shirley Jackson: a Rather Haunted Life by Ruth FranklinBased on a wealth of previously undiscovered correspondence and dozens of new interviews, this biography, with its exploration of astonishing talent shaped by a damaged childhood and a troubled marriage, becomes the definitive story of an American literary giant.
2016 National Book Critics Circle Winner for Biography
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Monstress: Awakening Volume Oneby Marjorie M LiuA survivor of a cataclysmic war between humans and the Arcanics, teenager Maika Halfwolf is both the hunter and hunted as she seeks answers about her mysterious past.
2017 Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story
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To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
by Christopher Paolini
A space voyager living her dream of exploring new worlds lands on a distant planet ripe for colonization before her discovery of a mysterious relic transforms her life and threatens humanity.
2020 Goodreads Choice Award for Science Fiction
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