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2021 Kirkus Prize Finalists

September 13, 2021
By Katy Hershberger

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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