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Omaha Reading Challenge 2021: Read a Book That Won an Award

OPL librarians have created a series of reading challenges to help you stretch beyond your comfort zone. This list features titles suggested for you to complete the "Read a book that won an award" challenge. For more details on the reading challenge go to omahalibrary.org/reading-challenge.

33 items

  • Highlighted in the Reading Challenge notebook and mentioned in the Reading Challenge Book Club. Winner of the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction
    BookNew York : Henry Holt and Company, 2019. — FICTION Choi 2019
  • Highlighted in the Reading Challenge notebook. Winner of the 2019 Hugo Award for Best Novel
    BookNew York : Tor, 2019. — SCIENCE FICTION Martine 2019
  • Highlighted in the Reading Challenge notebook. Winner of the 2019 Edgar Award for Best Novel
    BookBoston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019. — MYSTERY Griffiths 2019
  • Evicted

    Poverty and Profit in the American City

    Desmond, Matthew
    Mentioned in the Reading Challenge Book Club. Winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.
    BookNew York : Crown Publishers, [2016] — 339.46 Desmond 2016
  • Mentioned in the Reading Challenge Book Club. Winner of the 2020 Eisner Award for Best Publication for Kids and Best Writer/Artist.
    Graphic NovelNew York, NY : Graphix logo, an imprint of Scholastic, 2019. — jGRAPHIC Telgemeier
  • Mentioned in the Reading Challenge Book Club. Winner of the 1973 Edgar Award for Best Novel.
    BookNew York : Harper, 2009. — MYSTERY Hillerman 1973
  • Mentioned in the Reading Challenge Book Club. Winner of the 2015 Arthur C. Clarke Award.
    Audiobook CD[New York] : Random House Audio, 2014. — SCD FICTION Mandel
  • Mentioned in the Reading Challenge Book Club. Winner of the 2021 Dylan Thomas Prize.
    BookNew York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020. — FICTION Leilani 2020
  • Mentioned in the Reading Challenge Book Club. Winner of the 2019 Anthony Award for Best First Novel.
    eBook2018.
  • Mentioned in the Reading Challenge Book Club. Winner of the 2021 Schneider Family Book Award.
    Graphic NovelNew York : Dial Books for Young Readers, [2020] — jGRAPHIC B Mohamed Jamieson
  • Mentioned in the Reading Challenge Book Club. Winner of the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction.
    Audiobook CD[New York, N.Y.] : Simon & Schuster Audio, [2017] — SCD FICTION Ward
  • Mentioned in the Reading Challenge Book Club. Winner of the 2018 Michael L. Printz Award.
    Audiobook CDNew York, New York : Listening Library : Books on Tape, [2017] — YASCD FICTION LaCour
  • Mentioned in the Reading Challenge Book Club. Winner of the 2020 National Book Award Young People's Literature.
    BookNew York : Scholastic Press, 2020. — jFICTION Callender
  • Winner of the 2019 National Book Award for Non-Fiction
    BookNew York : Grove Press, [2019] — B Broom 2019
  • Winner of the 2019 Nebula Award for Best Novel
    BookNew York : Berkley, 2019. — SCIENCE FICTION Pinsker 2019