52 Award-Winning Titles Every Book Lover Should Read: A One Year Journal and Recommended Reading List from the American Library Association

By American Library Association (ALA)

The American Library Association presents an award-winning must-read book for every week of the year in this beautiful reading log.

Calling all book lovers! Expand your reading list with a one-year reading challenge from the American Library Association (ALA). Including the ALA's insights into each title, notes on the awards they've won, and prompts for further reflection, these recommendations are a must-have for all bibliophiles and library regulars.

Includes:

52 Award-Winning book recommendations to keep you reading all year

Prompts to reflect on each book as you complete the challenge

Inspiration for your personal reading log, perfect for sharing on social media

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sourcebooks
• Release date: Dec 7, 2021
• ISBN: 9781728244891

American Library Association (ALA)

The American Library Association is a nonprofit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally. It is the oldest and largest library association in the world, with more than 57,000 members.

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Contents

Front Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Introduction

About the Awards

1. The Poet X

2. Lost Memory of Skin

3. The Girl Who Drank the Moon

4. The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border

5. Moonglow

6. The Water Dancer

7. New Kid

8. Claire of the Sea Light

9. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

10. This Is How You Lose Her

11. All the Light We Cannot See

12. Manhattan Beach

13. Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis

14. The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner

15. The Forgotten Waltz

16. The Round House

17. Canada

18. Fathoms: The World in the Whale

19. Feast Your Eyes

20. The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

21. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

22. Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster

23. Hello, Universe

24. Dig

25. The Crossover

26. We Are Okay

27. Heavy: An American Memoir

28. On Such a Full Sea

29. March: Book Three

30. Lost Children Archive

31. Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America

32. The Great Believers

33. Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs

34. Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

35. Last