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The graphic below with the book covers of four winners, coincidentally, is highly orange!
There were three major awards in which historical novels received recognition, so without further ado:
The winner for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction was Tom Lin's The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu, about a Chinese orphan turned assassin in the post-Civil War West.
On the Notable Books List are several other works of historical fiction:
Jaime Cortez's Gordo, a short story collection set amid a California migrant workers' camp in the '70s (if you count the era as sufficiently historical);
Lauren Groff's Matrix, imagining the life of Marie de France, a French-born abbess in 12th-century England;
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers' The Love Songs of W. E. B. Du Bois, an expansive story tracing the heritage of a young woman's African American family;
and Anthony Doerr's Cloud Cuckoo Land, a historical-futuristic literary epic set partly in 15th-century Constantinople.
And for the Reading List, the ALA's annual awards in eight genre fiction categories, the award for Historical Fiction went to The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris, about the unusual friendship between enslaved brothers and a Georgia plantation couple in the post-Civil War years, and a subsequent tragedy.
On the Historical Fiction shortlist are:
And for the Reading List, the ALA's annual awards in eight genre fiction categories, the award for Historical Fiction went to The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris, about the unusual friendship between enslaved brothers and a Georgia plantation couple in the post-Civil War years, and a subsequent tragedy.
On the Historical Fiction shortlist are:
Daughters of Sparta by Claire Heywood (a Greek myth retelling):
Leonora in the Morning Light by Michaela Carter (on 20th-century painter Leonora Carrington);
Leonora in the Morning Light by Michaela Carter (on 20th-century painter Leonora Carrington);
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn (suspense before and after Bletchley Park, WWII);
and A Tip for the Hangman by Allison Epstein (spy thriller with Christopher Marlowe).
Congrats to all the honorees!
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| Miss Cocoa acting as live awards emcee |
Thanks for this post, Sarah. Lots of new books here for my Want To Read list!
ReplyDeleteMe too - the only one I've read is The Rose Code!
DeleteEvery time I turn around someone is talking about Groff's "Matrix" - I guess I'll have to read it! I keep wondering if it's at all similar to Nicola Griffith's "Hild" which I thought was wonderful.
ReplyDeleteMatrix was a finalist for the Carnegie medal, too. I bought a copy for the library but haven't had a chance to read it yet. Hild is another novel I've been meaning to read!
DeleteThanks for posting this. Lots of good titles to add to my TBR list!
ReplyDeleteHope you get the chance to read some!
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