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General nonfiction for adult readers is a National Book Award category continuous only from 1984, when the general award was restored after two decades of awards in several nonfiction categories. From 1935 to 1941 there were six annual awards for general nonfiction, two for biography, and the Bookseller Discovery or Most Original Book was ...
ALA Notable Books for Adults (established 1944) is an annual list selected by the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA), a division of the ALA. Within RUSA, a 12-member Notable Books Council selects "25 very good, very readable, and at times very important fiction, non-fiction, and poetry books for the adult reader."
It was a 2014 California Book Awards Young Adult Finalist. [9] It was listed on numerous best-of-the-year lists, including the 2015 YALSA Top 10 Best Fiction for Young Adults, [ 10 ] NPR's Guide To 2014's Great Reads, [ 11 ] Time magazine's Top 10 YA Books, [ 12 ] the ALA Rainbow Book List Top 10, [ 13 ] and CBC's Best Children's Book of the ...
Kontis has been an NPR book reviewer for many years covering predominantly Young adult and children's fiction. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Kontis co-wrote The Dark-Hunter Companion with Sherrilyn Kenyon . [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Kontis has learned and honed her writing under a variety of teachers including Orson Scott Card and Andre Norton .
Gideon the Ninth was named one of the best books of 2019 by several publications and organizations, including NPR, [10] Vox, [11] the New York Public Library, [12] Wired, [13] Polygon, [14] [15] Bustle, [16] Paste, [17] Shelf Awareness, [18] Book Riot, [19] and Gizmodo Australia, [20] and was selected by Amazon's editors as the best science ...
Mary Louise Kelly (born March 27, 1971) is an American broadcaster and author. She anchors the daily news show All Things Considered on National Public Radio (NPR), and previously covered national security at the network.
Near the end of the book, Sandhu noted that Laymon "sounds merely pompous." [20] Sandhu also found the way the book addressed Laymon's mother using the second-person pronoun "you" to be "[s]trangest of all" the language used in the book, saying, "It comes across as a device, as a contrivance. It promises an intimacy that he never delivers on."
This list of the most commonly challenged books in the United States refers to books sought to be removed or otherwise restricted from public access, typically from a library or a school curriculum. This list is primarily based on U.S. data gathered by the American Library Association 's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF), which gathers data ...