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Task #3 Read Harder 2019: A Book by a Woman and/or Author of Color that Won a Literary Award in 2018

“Literary prize” includes prizes that honor both genre-specific and literary works from across the world. For this task, the author can be a woman and/or an author of color. The books below are just a sample of books that have won awards in 2018.

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  • Locking Up Our Own

    Crime and Punishment in Black America

    Forman, James, 1967-
    Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
    BookNew York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017. — 364.973 For
  • Edgar Award for Best Novel
    BookNew York : Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2017. — Fic Lock
  • Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery
    BookNew York : Atheneum, [2017] — TEEN Reyn
  • Edgar Award for Best First Novel
    BookNew York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017] — Fic Harp
  • Coretta Scott King Book Awards Author Winner
    BookNew York : Bloomsbury, 2017. — YA Wats
  • The Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent (Author)
    Large PrintWaterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2018. — TEEN Moor L.P.
  • Newbery 2018 Medal Winner
    BookNew York, NY : Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017] — J Kell
  • 2018 Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Winner
    Large PrintWaterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2018. — L.P. Fic Sham
  • 2018 PEN/Hemingway Award Winner
    BookNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017. — Fic Wang
  • A Moonless, Starless Sky

    Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa

    Okeowo, Alexis,
    2018 PEN Open Book Winner
    BookNew York : Hachette Books, 2017. — 363.3215 Oke
  • 2018 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for a Debut Short Story Collection Winner
    eBook[S.I.] : Random House Publishing Group, 2017. — Libby eBook
  • National Book Awards 2018 for Nonfiction
    BookNew York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018] — B Locke, Alain
  • National Book Awards 2018 for Young People's Literature
    Audiobook CD[New York] : Harper Audio, [2018] — CD NA Acev
  • 2018 Minnesota Book Award for Children's Literature
    BookNorth Mankato, Minnesota : Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint, [2017] — E Phi
  • Hunger

    a Memoir of (my) Body

    Gay, Roxane,
    2018 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD for Bisexual Nonfiction Winner
    BookNew York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017] — 306.4613 Gay
  • 2018 Governor General’s Literary Award for Young People's Literature – Illustrated Books
    BookNew York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2018. — E Tam
  • 2018 The Man Booker International Prize Winner
    BookNew York : Riverhead Books, 2018. — Fic Toka
  • 2018 The Man Booker Prize Winner
    BookMinneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2018] — Fic Burn
  • 2018 AMERICAN BOOK AWARD Winner and 2018 Locus Awards Winner for Horror Novel and 2018 World Fantasy Award for a Novel
    BookNew York : Spiegel & Grau, [2018] — Fic LaVa