2024 Winners | Reference & User Services Association (RUSA)
FICTION
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Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame.
Chain-Gang All-Stars.
(Pantheon)
Allen, Jeffery Renard.
Fat Time and Other Stories.
(Graywolf)
Blaché, Sin and Helen Macdonald.
Prophet.
(Grove)
Brinkley, Jamel.
Witness.
(Farrar)
Chun, Ye.
Straw Dogs of the Universe.
(Catapult)
Cosby, S. A.
All the Sinners Bleed.
(Flatiron)
Daniell, Sebastián Martínez. Translated by Jennifer Croft.
Two Sherpas.
(Charco)
Earling, Debra Magpie.
The Lost Journals of Sacajewea.
(Milkweed)
Heng, Rachel.
The Great Reclamation.
(Riverhead)
Herawi, Siamak. Translated by Sara Khalili.
Tali Girls.
(Archipelago)
Huang, S. L.
The Water Outlaws.
(Tordotcom)
Innes, Daniel and Christina Wong.
Denison Avenue.
(ECW)
Labatut, Benjamin.
The MANIAC.
(Penguin)
Lee, Helen Elaine.
Pomegranate.
(Atria)
Norris, Kelsey.
House Gone Quiet.
(Scribner)
Peters, Amanda.
The Berry Pickers.
(Catapult)
Pin, Cecile.
Wandering Souls.
(Holt)
Qian, Cleo.
Let’s Go Let’s Go Let’s Go.
(Tin House)
Shroff, Parini.
The Bandit Queens.
(Ballantine)
Sze-Lorrain, Fiona.
Dear Chrysanthemums: A Novel in Stories.
(Scribner)
Ward, Jesmyn.
Let Us Descend.
(Scribner)
NONFICTION
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Asgarian, Roxanna.
We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America.
(Farrar)
Bagby, Meredith.
The New Guys: The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel.
(Morrow)
Bailar, Schuyler.
He/She/They: How We Talk about Gender and Why It Matters.
(Hachette Go)
Bell, Darrin.
The Talk.
(Holt)
Berg, Scott W.
The Burning of the World: The Great Chicago Fire and the War for a City’s Soul.
(Pantheon)
Bittle, Jake.
The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration.
(Simon & Schuster)
Cooper, Christian.
Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World.
(Random)
Desmond, Matthew.
Poverty, By America.
(Crown)
Egan, Timothy.
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them.
(Viking)
Habib, Shahnaz.
Airplane Mode: An Irrelevant History of Travel.
(Catapult)
Higa, Susumu. Translated by Jocelyne Allen.
Okinawa.
(Fantagraphics)
Holley, Santi Elijah.
An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created.
(Mariner)
Leland, Andrew.
The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight.
(Penguin)
Lowery, Wesley.
American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress.
(Mariner)
Nguyen, Viet Thanh.
A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial.
(Grove)
Nuila, Ricardo.
The People’s Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine.
(Scribner)
Sharkey, Erin.
A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars.
(Milkweed)
Sevigny, Melissa L.
Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon.
(Norton)
Swarns, Rachel L.
The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church.
(Random)
Tobar, Héctor.
Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino.”
(Farrar/MCD)
Vanderbes, Jennifer.
Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims.
(Random)
Wilbur, Matika.
Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America.
(Ten Speed)
Winston, Ali and Darwin BondGraham.
The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover Up in Oakland.
(Atria)
Woo, Ilyon.
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom.
(Simon & Schuster)