Randolph Caldecott Medal: Honors the illustrator of the most distinguished picture book for children published in the U.S. during the preceding year.
Winner: The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney
John Newberry Medal: Honors the year’s most distinguished contribution by a U.S. citizen or resident to American literature for children.
Winner: When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
Coretta Scott King Book Award: Honors a black author and a black illustrator for an outstanding, inspirational, and educational contribution to literature for children and young people published during the preceding year.
Winner (author) :Â Bad News For Outlaws by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Winner (illustrator) :Â My People by Langston Hughes, photographs by Charles R. Smith Jr.
Michael L Printz Award: Honors literary excellence in books for young adults.
Winner:Â Going Bovine by Libba Bray
For more Youth Media awards visit the ALA website.
Notables: Readable fiction, nonfiction and poetry books for adult readers selected by the Notable Book Council, a group of Reference and User Services Association members and readers’ advisory experts.
Fiction:
The Convalescent by Jessica Anthony
The Year of the Flood : A Novel by Margaret Atwood
The Anthologist: A Novel by Nicholson Baker
Await Your Reply: A Novel by Dan Chaon
For more fiction titles visit the RUSA blog
Nonfiction:
Columbine by Dave Cullen
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers
The Good Soldiers by David Finkel
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsessions in the Amazon by David Grann
For more non-fiction titles visit the RUSA blog
Poetry:
Face by Alexie Sherman
What Goes On: Selected and New Poems 1995-2009 by Stephen Dunn