Happy 2024!
Hoping to hit some professional milestones this year in addition to these reading goals. Best of luck to those of you who are also hoping to grow professionally.
As always, all books in the running are written by authors of color, indigenous authors, or occasionally white Latinx authors.
| Novella | Comic or graphic novel | YA or MG | Mystery or thriller | Nikkei author |
| Book in a series | Non-US-based author | Picture book | Romance | Short story collection |
| Independent press | Horror | Novel (any genre) | Award winner | Published before 2000 |
| Debut novel (any year) | Poetry | Anthology | Novel in verse | Bilingual book |
| Historical fiction | Nonfiction | SFF novel | Translated work | Biography or memoir |
NICOLE NOGI 