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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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Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer.
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Winner of the 2014 Nebula Award for Best Novel, presented by the Science Fiction Writers of America.

Lords of finance
Liaquat Ahamed.
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Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for history.

Between the world and me
Ta-Nehisi Coates.
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Winner of the 2015 National Book Award and the 2015 Kirkus Prize for non-fiction.

The sixth extinction
Elizabeth Kolbert.
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Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for general non-fiction.

The Black Count
Tom Reiss.
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Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for biography or autobiography.