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

Introduction

About the Awards

1. The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

2. Lost Memory of Skin by Russell Banks

3. The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill

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

5. Moonglow by Michael Chabon

6. The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

7. New Kid by Jerry Craft, Illustrated by the author

8. Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge Danticat

9. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

10. This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz

11. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

12. Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan

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

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

15. The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright

16. The Round House by Louise Erdrich

17. Canada by Richard Ford

18. Fathoms: The World in the Whale by Rebecca Giggs

19. Feast Your Eyes by Myla Goldberg

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

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

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

23. Hello, Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly

24. Dig by A. S. King

25. The Crossover by Kwame Alexander

26. We Are Okay by Nina LaCour

27. Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon

28. On Such a