The Kirkus Prize announced shortlists in fiction, nonfiction, and various children’s book categories, with the winners to be announced at a ceremony in Austin, TX on November 3. There is little overlap with theNational Book Award longlists (asterisked), though fiction writers Colson Whitehead and Adam Haslett are among those on both lists. The complete list of nominees features: Fiction Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett (Little, Brown)* Carousel Court by Joe McGinniss Jr. (Simon & Schuster) The Sport of Kings by C.E. Morgan (FSG) Barkskins by Annie Proulx (Scribner) A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles (Viking) The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead […]
