Booklist Online: Book Reviews from the American Library Association

The NBAs managed to avoid major controversy in the Young People’s Lit category, choosing  Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice, by Phillip Hoose as the winner over David Small’s Stitches. Awards were presented last night at a black tie dinner.
The other winners were:
Fiction
Let the Great World Spin, by Colum McCann 
Nonfiction
The First Tycoon: The Epic [...]

Mysterious, complicated, and running on at least two parallel narrative tracks, Jellicoe Road, to say the least, is not for everyone. That’s the main reason why the announcement of the book as the winner of the 2009 Michael L. Printz Award (administered by ALA Young Adult Library Services Association and sponsored by Booklist) was such [...]

The Bishop’s Man won Linden MacIntyre the $50,000 Giller prize. The other short-listed nominees were:
Fall, by Colin McAdam
The Disappeared, by Kim Echlin
The Winter Vault, by Anne Michaels
In other news, the 2009 Roald Dahl Funny Prize went to Grubtown Tales: Stinking Rich and Just Plain Stinky, by Philip Ardagh and Mr. Pusskins Best in Show, by [...]

 
Given some of the more intense scenes and themes in Margo Lanagan’s dark, boundary-pushing, and extravagantly written Tender Morsels, it wasn’t outrageous to expect something a little scandalous in her acceptance speech at the 2009 Michael L. Printz Awards (administered by ALA Young Adult Services Association and sponsored by Booklist). Instead, Lanagan went for the reverse shocker and offered [...]

Here are the highlights:
Life Achievement
Ellen Asher and Jane Yolen
Novel
The Shadow Year, by Jeffrey Ford
 
Tender Morsels, by Margo Lanagan
 
Novella
“If Angels Fight,” by Richard Bowes
 
Short Story
“26 Monkeys, also the Abyss,” by Kij Johnson
Anthology
Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy, edited by Ekaterina Sedia
Collection
The Drowned Life, by Jeffrey Ford
Artist
Shaun Tan
The full list of winners can be found here.

Five books were named Macavity Award winners by the Mystery Readers International organization: 
Best Mystery Novel
Where Memories Lie, by Deborah Crombie
Best First Mystery
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson
Best Nonfiction/Critical
African American Mystery Writers: A Historical & Thematic Study, by Frankie Y. Bailey
Best Mystery Short Story
“The Night Things Changed,” by Dana Cameron from Wolfsbane & [...]

Several awards-related news items were announced within that last week. Here’s the latest:
The 2009 Guardian Children’s Prize went to Exposure, Mal Peet’s update of Othello.
At the Bouchercon World Mystery Convention, winners were announced in eight categories for the 2009 Anthony Awards:
Best Novel
The Brass Verdict, by Michael Connelly
Best First Novel

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, by [...]

Author E. Lockhart isn’t afraid of a good argument, as she made clear in her acceptance speech for The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks at the 2009 Michael L. Printz Awards (administered by ALA’s Young Adult Library Services Association and sponsored by Booklist).  Readers have had wildly different responses to the book’s title character, a prep-school sophomore [...]

As you might know from reading 10 inches below this post (or, if for some reason you gets infos from somewhere else other than our little Likely Stories, you already know from anywhere else), the National Book Award nominations were announced yesterday. And while the NBAs are no stranger to odd picks, especially in the [...]

Man, where did the year go? Awards season is gearing up again. The National Book Award finalists were announced today:
Fiction
American Salvage, by Bonnie Jo Campbell

Let the Great World Spin, by Colum McCann

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, by Daniyal Mueenuddin

Lark and Termite, by Jayne Anne Phillips

Far North, by Marcel Theroux
Nonfiction
Following the Water: A Hydromancer’s Notebook, by David [...]