The Kirkus Prize announced finalists, with winners to be named on October 16:
Fiction
Jennine Capó Crucet, Say Hello to My Little Friend (Simon & Schuster)
Louise Erdrich, The Mighty Red (Harper)
Percival Everett, James (Doubleday)
Richard Powers, Playground (Norton)
Rufi Thorpe, Margot’s Got Money Troubles (William Morrow)
Paul Lynch, Prophet Song (Grove)
Nonfiction
Steve Coll, The Achilles Trap (The Penguin Press)
Adam Higginbotham, Challenger (Avid Reader Press)
Tessa Hulls, Feeding Ghosts (MCD/FSG)
Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time (Norton)
Shefali Luthra, Undue Burden (Doubleday)
Carvell Wallace, Another Word for Love (MCD/FSG)
Young Readers
Picture Books
Joanna Ho, illustrated by Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, We Who Produce Pearls (Scholastic/Orchard)
Jason Reynolds, illustrated by Jerome Pumphrey and Jarrett Pumphrey, There Was a Party for Langston (Caitlyn Dlouhy/Atheneum)
Middle Grade
Hiba Noor Khan, Safiyyah’s War (Allida/HarperCollins)
Sherri Winston, Shark Teeth (Bloomsbury)
Young Adult
Kenneth M. Cadow, Gather (Candlewick)
Safia Elhillo, Bright Red Fruit (Random House/Make Me a World)
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