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BKLYN BookMatch 2016 Challenge: Awards Season

Challenge yourself in 2016! Celebrate the bookish award season by reading some of these award winning titles. This list was created by librarians with the Brooklyn Public Library as a 2016 Reading Challenge. Would you like your own personalized list of reading suggestions? Visit BKLYN BookMatch here:www.bklynpubliclibrary.org/readers-advisory

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I'll give you the sun
by Jandy Nelson.
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Winner of the 2015 Michael L. Printz Award presented by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA) and the Stonewall Award presented by the American Library Association’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Round Table (GLBTRT).

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens agenda
Becky Albertalli.
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Winner of the 2016 William C. Morris YA Debut Award presented by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA).

Gabi, a girl in pieces
by Isabel Quintero.
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Winner of the 2015 William C. Morris YA Debut Award presented by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA).

Bone Gap
Laura Ruby.
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Winner of the 2016 Michael L. Printz Award presented by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA).

Relish
by Lucy Knisley.
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A winner of the 2014 Alex Award presented by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA).

The notorious Benedict Arnold
Steve Sheinkin.
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Winner of the 2012 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults presented by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA).

Invisible City
Julia Dahl.
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Finalist for Best First Novel from the Edgar Awards, presented by the Mystery Writers of America.

The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao
Junot Dâiaz.
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Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

The round house
Louise Erdrich.
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Winner of the 2012 National Book Award for fiction.

Olive Kitteridge
Elizabeth Strout.
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Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.