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front row left to right: V. T. Nguyen, C. Lozada, E. Ramshaw, T. Shelby, N. Brown, M. Miller, N. Barnes; back row left to right: D. Remnick, A. Applebaum, G. Thompson, E. Alexander, J. Cobb, K. Merida, N. Carroll, G. Escobar, S. Chan, K. Lytle Hernández; attending virtually: L. Bollinger (Photo by Jose R. Lopez)

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Neil Brown and Tommie Shelby, co-chairs; Marjorie Miller, administrator

David George Haskell

Publication
Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution’s Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction
Citation
An insightful and revelatory work that scientifically reconsiders natural sound as a wonder of evolution, voicing concern that noisy human progress may return us to silence.
Publisher
Viking
Tags: 2023
Categories: General Nonfiction

dg nanouk okpik

Publication
Blood Snow
Citation
Poems of deep attention and prismatic intelligence, which render a collapsing biosphere from the perspective of an ancient Arctic culture rooted in community, survival and guardianship.
Publisher
Wave Books
Tags: 2023
Categories: Poetry

Carl Phillips

Citation
A masterful collection that chronicles American culture as the country struggles to make sense of its politics, of life in the wake of a pandemic, and of our place in a changing global community.  
Tags: 2023
Categories: Poetry
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication
Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020

the late Jay Hopler

Publication
Still Life
Citation
A startling and darkly funny collection of sonnets, lyrics, epigrams and songs that produces a jolt of electric joy as the poet grapples with his end-of-life concerns and mortal fears.
Publisher
McSweeney’s
Tags: 2023
Categories: Poetry

Hua Hsu

Citation
An elegant and poignant coming of age account that considers intense, youthful friendships but also random violence that can suddenly and permanently alter the presumed logic of our personal narratives.
Tags: 2023
Categories: Memoir or Autobiography
Publisher
Doubleday
Publication
Stay True

Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Publication
The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir
Citation
A lyrical personal account that reclaims a family legacy of indigenous practices, beliefs, and narratives to challenge Western notions of history and memory.
Publisher
Doubleday
Tags: 2023
Categories: Memoir or Autobiography

Chloé Cooper Jones

Publication
Easy Beauty: A Memoir
Citation
A spellbinding and brutally honest memoir drawing on art, travel, cultural observation and philosophical scholarship to convey the full experience of life as a disabled person whose view of humanity becomes increasingly compassionate.
Publisher
Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster
Tags: 2023
Categories: Memoir or Autobiography

Jennifer Homans

Publication
Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century
Citation
A sweeping, eloquent, and deeply insightful portrait of the choreographer who reinvented ballet as an American art form, a man whose life was full of urgent passions and faults.
Publisher
Random House
Tags: 2023
Categories: Biography

Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa

Publication
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
Citation
An intimate, riveting portrait of an ordinary man whose fatal encounter with police officers in 2020 sparked an international movement for social change, but whose humanity and complicated personal story were unknown. (Moved by the Board to the General Nonfiction category.)
Publisher
Viking
Tags: 2023
Categories: Biography

Beverly Gage

Citation
A deeply researched and nuanced look at one of the most polarizing figures in U.S. history that depicts the longtime FBI director in all his complexity, with monumental achievements and crippling flaws.
Tags: 2023
Categories: Biography
Publisher
Viking
Publication
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
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