Since this month we have a limited list to choose from (2018 Literary Award Winners), we can use this as an opportunity to refine this system. Here's a sample of what I'm thinking:

Title and Author: Less, Andrew Sean Greer

Award: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Short Description: A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of "arresting lyricism and beauty"

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I will try and respond to each nomination with a couple places to find it, unless someone else beats me to it :)

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  • Title and Author: She Rides Shotgun, Jordan Harper

    Award: Edgar Award for Best First Novel

    Synopsis: Eleven-year-old Polly McClusky is shy, too old for the teddy bear she carries with her everywhere, when she is unexpectedly reunited with her father, Nate, fresh out of jail and driving a stolen car. He takes her from the front of her school into a world of robbery, violence, and the constant threat of death. And he does it to save her life.

    Available on the Washington Anytime Library, I'm not sure if you need to have a card from a participating library system to read it for free or not. https://anytime.overdrive.com/anytime-north/content

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  • I nominate We Are Okay by Nina Lacour

    Won the Michael Printz award for young adult literature.

    (I was thinking YA because it tends to be easier/faster to read which seems nice to start out)

    Marin hasn’t spoken to anyone from her old life since the day she left everything behind. No one knows the truth about those final weeks. Not even her best friend Mabel. But even thousands of miles away from the California coast, at college in New York, Marin still feels the pull of the life and tragedy she’s tried to outrun. Now, months later, alone in an emptied dorm for winter break, Marin waits. Mabel is coming to visit and Marin will be forced to face everything that’s been left unsaid and finally confront the loneliness that has made a home in her heart.

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