Nominations

A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman

The Belles - Dhonielle Clayton

How You Say It: Why We Judge Others by the Way They Talk—and the Costs of This Hidden Bias - Katherine Kinzler

Deaf Utopia: A Memoir―and a Love Letter to a Way of Life - Nyle DiMarco and Robert Siebert

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century - Alice Wong

What the Eyes Don't See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City - Mona Hanna-Attisha

On the Line: Two Women's Epic Fight to Build a Union - Daisy Pitkin

Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World - Katharine Hayhoe

The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities - Will Allen

Good Arguements - Bo Seo

Solito Javier - Zamora

The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse - Charlie Mackesy

Radical Inclusion: Seven Steps to Help You Create a More Just Workplace, Home and World - David Moinina Sengeh

Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History - Dan Flores

Long Way Down - Jason Reynolds

A Long Walk To Water - Linda Sue Park

The Humans - Matt Haig

Milk and Honey - Rupi Kaur

Lore Olympus: Volume One - Rachel Smythe- Persephone

The Comfort Crisis - Michael Easter

Long Way Down - Jason Reynolds

I Am Strong: The Life and Journey of an Autistic Pastor - Lamar Hardwick

Mario Barradas and Son Jarocho: The Journey of a Mexican Regional Music - Yolanda Broyles-González

John Lewis: Making Good Trouble - Amanda Jackson Green

Sisters of the Lost Nation - Nick Medina

Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel

The Measure - Nikki Erlick

Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen - Jose Antonio Vargas

The Summer We Got Free - Mia McKenzie

Lot: Stories - Bryan Washington

Jonny Appleseed - Joshua Whitehead

The Sweetness of Water - Nathan Harris

Fruit of the Drunken Tree - Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Guapa - Saleem Haddad

Melissa (previously published as GEORGE) - Alex Gino

A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid from the Taliban in Plain Sight - Maria Toorpakai with Katherine Holstein

The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America - Thomas King

Melissa (previously published as GEORGE) - Alex Gino

We Are Not From Here - Jenny Torres Sanchez

A Different Kind of Daughter: The Girl Who Hid from the Taliban in Plain Sight - Maria Toorpakai with Katherine Holstein

Hunger- Roxane Gay

Shrill - Lindy West

Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood - Marjane Satrapi

Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation - Eboo Patel

Being Heumann - Judith Heumann & Kristen Joiner

The United States Constitution: A Graphic Adaptation - Jonathan Hennessey

Maus I & II - Art Spiegelman

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century - Alice Wong

Listening Is an Act of Love - Dave Isay

Letter to a Young Female Physician: Thoughts on Life and Work - Suzanne Koven

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants - Robin Wall Kimmerer

All Boys Aren't Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto - George M. Johnson

This Land is My Land: A Graphic History of Big Dreams, Micronations, and Other Self-Made States - Andy Warner

Credo: The Rose Wilder Lane Story - Peter Bagge

Queer: A Graphic History - Meg-JohnBarker

They Called Us Enemy - George Takei

Educated: A Memoir - Tara Westover

Mind and Matter: A Life in Math and Football -John Urschel

Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet - Claire L. Evans

Lab Girl - Hope Jahren

Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History - Lea Ypi

The Lives of Campus Custodians - Insights Into Corporatization and Civic Disengagement in the Academy - Peter Magolda

This Is How It Always Is - Laurie Frankel

Know My Name - Chanel Miller

Born A Crime; Stories from a South African Childhood - Trevor Noah

Last Summer on State Street - Toya Wolfe

Good Kings Bad Kings - Susan Nussbaum

Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land - Taylor Brorby

Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces -Elamin Abdelmahmoud

Braiding Sweetgrass -Robin Wall Kimmerer

Kindred - Octavia Butler

Q & A - Vikas Swarup

Butterfly - From Refugee to Olympian - Yusra Mardini

Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi

City of Veils - Zoe Ferraris

Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong

Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think - Hans Rosling

The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet - John Green

The Reckonings - Lacy M. Johnson

The Stakes is High - Mychal Denzel Smith

Radium Girls - Kate Moore

Redefining Normal - Justin & Alexis Black

How to Pronounce Knife: Stories - Souvankham Thammavongsa

Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood - Ibtisam Barakat

Balcony on the Moon: Coming of Age in Palestine - Ibtisam Barakat

Just Mercy - Bryan Stevenson

Make your bed: little things can change your life...and maybe the world - Admiral William H McRaven

The subtle art of not giving a F*ck - Mark Manson

The Power of Human - Adam Waytz

Friendship - Lydia Denworth

Team Human - Douglas Rushkoff

Punching the Air - Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam

Refugee - Alan Gratz

Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries - Safi Bahcall

Chasing Excellence - Pat Melgares

The Bystander Effect - Catherine Sanderson

We Art Not From Here - Jenny Torres Sanchez

Clap When You Land - Elizabeth Acevedo

The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure - Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning - Cathy Park Hong

The Vanishing Half- Brit Bennett

Hood Feminism: Notes From the Women That A Movement Forgot - Mikki Kendall

I Am a Girl from Africa - Elizabeth Nyamayaro

The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World - Simon Winchester

Destroy Your Student Loan Debt: The Step-by-Step Plan to Pay Off Your Student Loans Faster - Anthony ONeal

Who Killed Berta Cáceres? - Nina Lakhani

Inconspicuous Consumption - Tatiana Schlossberg

Polluted Promises - Melissa Checker

Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer

Emergent Strategy - adrienne maree brown

Drawdown - Paul Hawken and Tom Steyer

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together - Heather McGhee

Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom

The Racial Healing Handbook - Anneliese A. Singh

The Mothers - Britt Bennett

Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A. - Danielle Allen

The Dew Breaker - Edwidge Danticat

Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth - Sarah Smarsh

And It Begins Like This - LaTanya McQueen

The Marrow Thieves - Cherie Dimaline

There There - Tommy Orange

Friendship- Lydia Denworth

The Power of Human - Adam Waytz

Team Human - Douglas Rushkoff

The Rosie Project - Graeme Simsion

Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging - Sebastian Junger

Love Thy Neighbor: A Muslim Doctor's Struggle for Home in Rural America - Ayaz Virji

Talking to Strangers - Malcolm Gladwell

Born a Crime - Trevor Noah

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing - Hank Green

World War Z - Max Brooks

The Sound of Waves - Yukio Mishima; Translated by Meredith Weatherby

Beartown - Fredrik Backman

Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel

Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang - Kate Wilhelm

Wool - Hugh Howey

This Book is Not Yet Rated - Peter Bognanni

The Day the World Came to Town - Jim DeFede

Flight Behavior - Barbara Kingsolver

Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference - Warren St. John

We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time - Jose Andres

The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah

Semiosis - Sue Burke

The Lady and Her Monsters: A Tale of Dissections, Real-Life Dr. Frankensteins, and the Creation of Mary Shelley's Masterpiece - Roseanne Montillo

The Imitation Game: Alan Turing Decoded - Jim Ottaviani, illustrated by Leland Purvis

Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb - Jonathan Fetter-Vorm

High Price - Carl Hart

The Optimist's Telescope - Bina Venkataraman

Memory of Water - Emmi Itäranta

The Water Knife - Paolo Bacigalupi

Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary - Linus Torvalds and David Diamond

Energy for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines - Richard A. Muller

Educated - Tara Westover

The Unwinding of the Miracle - Julie Yip-Williams

Breaking Night - Liz Murray

How to Bake Pi: An edible exploration of mathematics -Eugenia Cheng, Ph.D.

A Country Doctor - Sarah Orne Jewett

The Book of Lights - Chaim Potok

The Radium Girls - Kate Moore

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II - Liza Mundy

My Brief History - Hawking, Stephen

Songs of the Gorilla Nation: My Journey Through Autism - Dawn Prince-Hughes Ph.D.

Struck by Genius: How a Brain Injury Made Me a Mathematical Marvel - Jason Padgett

Chasing Space: An Astronaut's Story of Grit, Grace, and Second Chances - Leland Melvin

Flight Of The Gin Fizz: Midlife At 4,500 Feet - Henry Kisor

Fallout - Jim Ottaviani, Janine Johnston, Steve Lieber, Vince Locke, Bernie Mireault and Jeff Parker

The Andromeda Strain - Michael Crichton

Losers in Space - John Barnes

Wool - Hugh Howey

The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer - Sydney Padua

Hidden Figures - Margot Lee Shetterly

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers - Mary Roach

The Good Food Revolution - Will Allen

The Mercury 13: The Untold Story of Thirteen American Women and the Dream of Space Flight - Martha Ackmann

Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic Of 1918 And The Search For The Virus That Caused It - Gina Kolata

Spaceman: An Astronaut's Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe - Mike Massimino

The Science Education of American Girls - Kim Tolley

Alan Turing: The Enigma - Andrew Hodges

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind - William Kamkwamba and Bryan Mealer

Autonomous - Annalee Newitz

The Martian - Andy Weir

Lab Girl - Hope Jahren

The Housekeeper and the Professor - Yoko Ogawa

An Abundance of Katherines - John Green

The Three Body Problem - Cixin Liu

Butterfly: From Refugee to Olympian - My Story of Rescue, Hope, and Triumph - Yusra Mardini

How to Disappear - Sharon Huss Roat

Good Self, Bad Self: Transforming Your Worst Qualities into Your Biggest Assets - Judy Smith

Super Better: A Revolutionary Approach to Getting Stronger, Happier, Braver and More Resilient--Powered by the Science of Games - Jane McGonigal

Habit Stacking: 127 Small Changes to Improve Your Health, Wealth, and Happiness - S.J. Scott

Win No Matter What: A Guide to Hyping Up Your Life - Nihar Suthar

It's Kind of a Funny Story - Ned Vizzini

I am the Messenger -Marcus Zusak

We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations That Matter - Celeste Headlee

Reclaiming Conversation The Power of Talk in a Digital Age - Sherry Turkle

The Last Lecture - Randy Pausch

Percy Jackson and the lightning thief - Rick Riordan

The Immortalists - Chloe Benjamin

The Circle - Dave Eggers

Autonomous - Annalee Newitz

The Radium Girls - Kate Moore

The Journey - Kaneil Harrison

Furiously Happy - Jenny Lawson

The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter - Erika L. Sánchez

Turtles All the Way Down - John Green

Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation - Daniel Siegel

Failing Up: How to Take Risks, Aim Higher, and Never Stop Learning - Leslie Odom Jr.

Buddha's Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom - Rick Hanson

The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living - Russ Harris

The Martian - Andy Weir

Ready, Player One -Ernest Cline

When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi

Wonder - R. J. Palacio

10% Happier - Dan Harris

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness - Susannah Cahalan

War Against the Animals - Paul Russell

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance - Angela Duckworth

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business - Charles Duhigg

Walden on Wheels - Ken Ilgunas

Ode to Kirihito - Osamu Tezuka

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter - Erika L. Sánchez

Darius the Great Is Not Okay - Adib Khorram

Butterfly - Yusra Mardini

Hillbilly Elegy – JD Vance

Vox - Christina Dalcher

Turtles All the Way Down - John Green

Beartown - Fredrik Backman

Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi

Grit - Angela Duckworth

Hamilton: An American Musical

Code Talker: The first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo code talkers of WWII - Chester Nez with Judith Schiess Avila

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life - Richard Hofstadter

The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation - Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón

American Boys - Jason Reynolds, Brendan Kiely

Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow

Inside Out & Back Again - Thanhha Lai

Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead: The Frank Meeink Story - Frank Meeink

The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood

Lab Girl - Hope Jahren

Our Daily Bread; The Essential Norman Borlaug - Noel Vietmeyer

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon

Gaining Ground: A Story of Farmers' Markets, Local Food, and Saving the Family Farm - Forrest Pritchard

Colored People - Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

The Boys in the Boat - Daniel James Brown

In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom - Yeonmi Park

Exit West - Mohsin Hamid

Natural Born Heroes: Mastering the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance - Christopher McDougall

Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life - Karen Armstrong

Born A Crime - Trevor Noah

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Rocket Boys - Homer Hickman

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent - Julia Alvarez

The Mothers - Brit Bennett

Behold the Dreamers: A Novel - Imbolo Mbue

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon

The Midnight Man - David Eric Tomlinson

The Book of Unknown Americans - Cristina Henríquez

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - Sherman Alexie

Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides

Everything That Remains -Joshua Fields Millburn, Ryan Nicodemus

A Different Beautiful: Discovering and Celebrating Beauty in Places You Never Expected - Courtney Westlake

Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project - Jack Mayer

The Distance Between Us: A Memoir - Reyna Grande

Breakpoint: The Changing Marketplace for Higher Education - Jon McGee

Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis - Robert D. Putnam

When I Was Puerto Rican - Esmeralda Santiago

The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas

Hillbilly Elegy - JD Vance

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Hidden Figures - Margot Lee Shetterly

Code Talker: The first and only memoir by one of the original Navajo code talkers of WWII - Chester Nez with Judith Schiess Avila

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life - Richard Hofstadter

The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation - Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón

American Boys - Jason Reynolds, Brendan Kiely

Ragtime - E.L. Doctorow

Inside Out & Back Again - Thanhha Lai

Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead: The Frank Meeink Story - Frank Meeink

The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood

Lab Girl - Hope Jahren

Our Daily Bread; The Essential Norman Borlaug - Noel Vietmeyer

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon

Gaining Ground: A Story of Farmers' Markets, Local Food, and Saving the Family Farm - Forrest Pritchard

Colored People - Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

The Boys in the Boat - Daniel James Brown

In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom - Yeonmi Park

Exit West - Mohsin Hamid

Natural Born Heroes: Mastering the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance - Christopher McDougall

Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life - Karen Armstrong

Born A Crime - Trevor Noah

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Rocket Boys - Homer Hickman

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent - Julia Alvarez

The Mothers - Brit Bennett

Behold the Dreamers: A Novel - Imbolo Mbue

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon

The Midnight Man - David Eric Tomlinson

The Book of Unknown Americans - Cristina Henríquez

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian - Sherman Alexie

Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides

Everything That Remains -Joshua Fields Millburn, Ryan Nicodemus

A Different Beautiful: Discovering and Celebrating Beauty in Places You Never Expected - Courtney Westlake

Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project - Jack Mayer

The Distance Between Us: A Memoir - Reyna Grande

Breakpoint: The Changing Marketplace for Higher Education - Jon McGee

Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis - Robert D. Putnam

When I Was Puerto Rican - Esmeralda Santiago

The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas

Hillbilly Elegy - JD Vance

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Hidden Figures - Margot Lee Shetterly

Deferred Interest -Ryan Pollyea

Walk to Beautiful - Jimmy Wayne

Tribe - Sebastian Junger

Walden - Michael Dolan

In The Country We Love: My Family Divided - Diane Guerrero