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I haven't read a lot of books this year outside of YA, so I'm just going to be talking about what I've read!
STONEWALL AWARD
ARISTOTLE AND DANTE DISCOVER THE SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE wins it!!!!!!!! EFF YEAH.
I haven't actually read any of the honor books, which surprises me, because it seems like there were a couple of strong contenders that I did read. Really surprised that Ask the Passengers didn't get an honor -- it's a great book, though I've heard concerns raised about how it erases bisexuality as an option.
CORETTA SCOTT KING AWARD
AGH I can't believe I didn't get around to reading "Each Kindness."
But I'm really happy that "No Crystal Stair" by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson got an author honor award -- it's a really impressive fictional biography of Lewis Micheaux, who made his career owning a bookstore in Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance.
MARGARET EDWARDS AWARD for lifetime achievement:
Tamora Pierce! Cool! I'm not a huge fan of everything she's done but I think that she's done some really important work bringing a positive and straightforward attitude about sexuality into YA fantasy and I think it's a good choice.
MORRIS AWARD for a debut author:
Rachel Hartman for Seraphina! I think that was the only one of the nominees I actually read, but it was definitely an impressive book in worldbuilding and character building and writing really interesting dragons.
YALSA GUY, YOU'RE KINDA BUGGING ME. ENOUGH WITH THE LOVEBOMBING.
YALSA AWARD FOR NONFICTION:
BOMB by Steve Sheinkin. It is so good! It has suspense and science and sabotage and it actually is pretty serious about the moral implications about nuclear weapons -- it's not sympathetic to soviet spies, but it's sympathetic to the idea that maybe it's not a great idea for just one country to have nuclear weapons (not that the cold war was such a great idea either...)
PRINTZ AWARD
Honor books
ARISTOTLE AND DANTE! Complete surprise there. GREAT BOOK though. By the way, AFAIK this is the first book with an LGBT major character to get a Printz award/honor since 2003.
CODE NAME VERITY. I LOVED THIS SO MUCH IT SHOULD HAVE WON. But an honor is still a great thing.
DODGER and THE WHITE BICYCLE, which I didn't read.
Award book
In Darkness by Nick Lake.
Huh.
I read it and was not hugely impressed by it. I didn't really feel like the present/past stuff was entirely effective and it was a little too poverty-wallowy for me.
Where's Brides of Rollrock Island?
PURA BELPRE AWARD
ARISTOTLE AND DANTE gets it! Whoa, this is really Benjamin Alire Saenz's year. He deserves it.
SEIBERT AWARD for nonfiction:
BOMB gets it!
GREEN gets a Caldecott honor! What a great little book. And This Is Not My Hat gets the award! I don't feel qualified to judge because I didn't read hardly any picture books this year, but I thought it was pretty great.
Bomb gets a Newbery honor!
And that is the end of the awards. I'm happy overall, though really surprised that "Ask the Passengers" and "Brides of Rollrock Island" got shut out, as great as they were.
STONEWALL AWARD
ARISTOTLE AND DANTE DISCOVER THE SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE wins it!!!!!!!! EFF YEAH.
I haven't actually read any of the honor books, which surprises me, because it seems like there were a couple of strong contenders that I did read. Really surprised that Ask the Passengers didn't get an honor -- it's a great book, though I've heard concerns raised about how it erases bisexuality as an option.
CORETTA SCOTT KING AWARD
AGH I can't believe I didn't get around to reading "Each Kindness."
But I'm really happy that "No Crystal Stair" by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson got an author honor award -- it's a really impressive fictional biography of Lewis Micheaux, who made his career owning a bookstore in Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance.
MARGARET EDWARDS AWARD for lifetime achievement:
Tamora Pierce! Cool! I'm not a huge fan of everything she's done but I think that she's done some really important work bringing a positive and straightforward attitude about sexuality into YA fantasy and I think it's a good choice.
MORRIS AWARD for a debut author:
Rachel Hartman for Seraphina! I think that was the only one of the nominees I actually read, but it was definitely an impressive book in worldbuilding and character building and writing really interesting dragons.
YALSA GUY, YOU'RE KINDA BUGGING ME. ENOUGH WITH THE LOVEBOMBING.
YALSA AWARD FOR NONFICTION:
BOMB by Steve Sheinkin. It is so good! It has suspense and science and sabotage and it actually is pretty serious about the moral implications about nuclear weapons -- it's not sympathetic to soviet spies, but it's sympathetic to the idea that maybe it's not a great idea for just one country to have nuclear weapons (not that the cold war was such a great idea either...)
PRINTZ AWARD
Honor books
ARISTOTLE AND DANTE! Complete surprise there. GREAT BOOK though. By the way, AFAIK this is the first book with an LGBT major character to get a Printz award/honor since 2003.
CODE NAME VERITY. I LOVED THIS SO MUCH IT SHOULD HAVE WON. But an honor is still a great thing.
DODGER and THE WHITE BICYCLE, which I didn't read.
Award book
In Darkness by Nick Lake.
Huh.
I read it and was not hugely impressed by it. I didn't really feel like the present/past stuff was entirely effective and it was a little too poverty-wallowy for me.
Where's Brides of Rollrock Island?
PURA BELPRE AWARD
ARISTOTLE AND DANTE gets it! Whoa, this is really Benjamin Alire Saenz's year. He deserves it.
SEIBERT AWARD for nonfiction:
BOMB gets it!
GREEN gets a Caldecott honor! What a great little book. And This Is Not My Hat gets the award! I don't feel qualified to judge because I didn't read hardly any picture books this year, but I thought it was pretty great.
Bomb gets a Newbery honor!
And that is the end of the awards. I'm happy overall, though really surprised that "Ask the Passengers" and "Brides of Rollrock Island" got shut out, as great as they were.