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• Demon Copperhead

  a Novel

  Kingsolver, Barbara

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  Winner in the Fiction category. A masterful recasting of “David Copperfield,” narrated by an Appalachian boy whose wise, unwavering voice relates his encounters with poverty, addiction, institutional failures and moral collapse–and his efforts to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Trust

  Díaz, Hernán, 1973-

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  Winner in the Fiction Category. A riveting novel set in a bygone America that explores family, wealth and ambition through linked narratives rendered in different literary styles, a complex examination of love and power in a country where capitalism…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Immortal King Rao

  a Novel

  Vara, Vauhini, 1982-

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  Finalist in the Fiction category.

• His Name Is George Floyd

  One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice

  Samuels, Robert, 1984-

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  Winner in the General Nonfiction category. An intimate, riveting portrait of an ordinary man whose fatal encounter with police officers in 2020 sparked an international movement for social change, but whose humanity and complicated personal story…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Kingdom of Characters

  the Language Revolution That Made China Modern

  Tsu, Jing

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  Finalist in the General Nonfiction category.

• Sounds Wild and Broken

  Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction

  Haskell, David George

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  Finalist in the General Nonfiction category.

• Under the Skin

  the Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation

  Villarosa, Linda

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  Finalist in the General Nonfiction category.

• Freedom's Dominion

  a Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power

  Cowie, Jefferson,

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  Winner in the History category. A resonant account of an Alabama county in the 19th and 20th centuries shaped by settler colonialism and slavery, a portrait that illustrates the evolution of white supremacy by drawing powerful connections between…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Watergate

  a New History

  Graff, Garrett M., 1981-

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  Finalist in the History category.

• G-man

  J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

  Gage, Beverly

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  Winner in the Biography category. A deeply researched and nuanced look at one of the most polarizing figures in U.S. history that depicts the longtime FBI director in all his complexity, with monumental achievements and crippling flaws.

• Mr. B

  George Balanchine's 20th Century

  Homans, Jennifer, 1960-

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  Finalist in the Biography category.

• Stay True

  a Memoir

  Hsu, Hua, 1977-

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  Winner in the Memoir or Autobiography category. An elegant and poignant coming of age account that considers intense, youthful friendships but also random violence that can suddenly and permanently alter the presumed logic of our personal narratives.

• Easy Beauty

  A Memoir

  Cooper Jones, Chloé, 1983-

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  Finalist in the Memoir or Autobiography category.

• The Man Who Could Move Clouds

  a Memoir

  Rojas Contreras, Ingrid

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  Finalist in the Memoir or Autobiography category.

• Then the War

  and Selected Poems, 2007-2020

  Phillips, Carl, 1959-

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  Winner in the Poetry category.

• Blood Snow

  Okpik, Dg Nanouk

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  Finalist in the Poetry category.