Kirkus announced the finalists for the 2021 Kirkus Prize, including The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2021: Spring/Summer compilation, and My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson, available in our Buzz Books 2021: Fall/Winter sampler. The winners will be announced in a virtual ceremony on October 28. The other finalists:
Fiction
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez, translated by Megan McDowell (Hogarth/Crown)
Bolla by Pajtim Statovci, translated by David Hackston (Pantheon)
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday)
Harrow by Joy Williams (Knopf)
Nonfiction
Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir by Brian Broome (Mariner Books)
People Love Dead Jews: Reports From a Haunted Present by Dara Horn (Norton)
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles (Random House)
Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness by Kristen Radtke, illustrated by the author (Pantheon)
Lightning Flowers: My Journey To Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life by Katherine E. Standefer (Little, Brown Spark)
Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico by Juan Villoro, translated by Alfred MacAdam (Pantheon)
Young Readers’ Literature
Picture Books
Your Mama by NoNieqa Ramos, illustrated by Jacqueline Alcántara (Versify/HarperCollins)
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Floyd Cooper (Carolrhoda)
Middle Grade
Legacy: Women Poets of the Harlem Renaissance by Nikki Grimes and 19 illustrators (Bloomsbury)
All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys’ Soccer Team by Christina Soontornvat (Candlewick)
Young Adult
The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling by Wai Chim (Scholastic)
The Life I’m In by Sharon G. Flake (Scholastic)
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