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Kirkus Prize Finalists

August 30, 2023
By Erin Somers

The Kirkus Prize announced finalists across three categories, with winners to be named on October 11. Books included in our Buzz Books 2023 anthologies are marked with an *.

Fiction
Witness, by Jamel Brinkley*
Birnam Wood, by Eleanor Catton*
White Cat, Black Dog, by Kelly Link and Shaun Tan
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, by James McBride
The Bee Sting, by Paul Murray
Let Us Descend, by Jesmyn Ward

Nonfiction
Red Memory, by Tanie Branigan
Mr. B, by Jennifer Homans
How Not To Kill Yourself, by Clancy Martin
How To Say Babylon, by Safiya Sinclair*
Our Migrant Souls, by Héctor Tobar*
Master Slave Husband Wife, by Ilyon Woo

Young Readers
America Redux, by Ariel Aberg-Riger
Together We Swim, by Valerie Bolling & Kaylani Jaunita
The Eternal Return of Clara Hart, by Louis Finch
Julia and the Shark, by Kiran Millwood Hargrave & Tom De Freston
The Skull, by Jon Klassen
João by a Thread, by Roger Mello & Daniel Hahn

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