The Kirkus Prize announced its finalists in fiction, nonfiction, and children’s literature, with the winners to be announced on October 25. A modest number of nominees overlap with the National Book Awards longlists, including Lauren Groff and Nafissa Thompson-Spires in fiction; Rebecca Solnit and Sarah Smarsh in nonfiction; and Elizabeth Acevedo in young people’s literature. The complete list: Fiction Halsey Street, by Naima Coster Florida, by Lauren Groff Mourning, by Eduardo Halfon Severance, by Ling Ma Heads of the Colored People, by Nafissa Thompson-Spires Tell the Machine Goodnight, by Katie Williams Nonfiction American Prison, by Shane Bauer Heavy, by Kiese Laymon […]