Winners of ALA Notable Books Awards, Carnegie Medals, Newbery Medals, Caldecott Honor Books, and Printz Honors Announced

January 25, 2017

The winners of the 2017 American Library Association (ALA) Notable Books Awards, Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction, Newbery Medal, Caldecott Honor Books, and Printz Honors were announced over the weekend.

A statement from ALA lists the twenty-six 2017 selections for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and a statement from Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction—a joint initiative of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the American Library Association—announces Colson Whitehead and Matthew Desmond’s books The Underground Railroad and Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, respectively, as winners of the Andrew Carnegie Medals. The finalists for the Andrew Carnegie Medals will be honored during a celebration at ALA’s 2017 Annual Conference in Chicago.

The ALA Notable Books List includes Whitehead’s book, as well as Cannibal, a poetry collection by Safiya Sinclair; The Gene: An Intimate History, a book of nonfiction by Siddhartha Mukherjee; and Behold the Dreamers: A Novel, by Imbolo Mbue, among others.

Publishers Weekly has a list of the winners of the Newbery Medal, Caldecott Honor Books, and Printz Honors that includes March: Book Three by US Representative John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell, and which, altogether, garnered four prizes.

Related reading: For Literary Hub, Emily Temple writes about how ALA’s 2017 Youth Media Awards are “recognizing the beauty and value of difference” in an era wherein “an actual racist [is] leading the country.”


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