Carnegie Medals Shortlist

I did it!  My stack of books to read is at a manageable level!  Oh...wait...the shortlists for the Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction were recently announced?  And I still have not read some of these titles.  Disregard my previous statement about my to-read list being at a normal level.  It's not.

These awards are some of the newest in the list of literary prizes.  In only the second year, the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the American Library Association have made the fiction and nonfiction awards into highly respected prizes.  Here's this year's shortlist:

Finalists for Fiction

This is How You Lose Her- Junot Díaz
The Round House- Louise Erdrich
Canada- Richard Ford

Finalists for Nonfiction

Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher- Timothy Egan
The Mansion of Happiness- Jill Lepore
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic- David Quammen

The winners will be announced at the American Library Association Annual Conference on June 30.

Of course, the Man Booker Prize longlist is set to be announced at the end of July.  Looks like I have some catching up to do.