Meet the finalists for the 2018 Kirkus Prizes

Literature’s awards season continues with a newer (and lucrative) honor: the Kirkus Prizes.

The finalists for the fifth annual award, which doles out $50,000 to each of the winners for fiction, nonfiction, and young readers’ literature, were revealed this morning.

Winners will be announced on October 25.

Several Kirkus Prizes nominees have also received consideration from the National Book Awards, as the Los Angeles Times points out.

The overlap is noted on the full list of Kirkus finalists:

Fiction

• Halsey Street, by Naima Coster.

• Florida, by Lauren Groff. (Also a National Book Awards finalist.)

• Mourning, by Eduardo Halfon.

• Severance, by Ling Ma.

• Heads of the Colored People, by Nafissa Thompson-Spires. (Also a National Book Awards finalist.)

• Tell the Machine Goodnight, by Katie Williams.

Nonfiction

• The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America, by Timothy Snyder.

• Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America, by Beth Macy.

• American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment, by Shane Bauer.

• Heavy: An American Memoir, by Kiese Laymon.

• Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays), by Rebecca Solnit. (Also a National Book Awards nominee.)

• Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth, by Sarah Smarsh. (Also a National Book Awards nominee.)

Young readers’ literature

• Crown, written by Derrick Barnes and illustrated by Gordon C. James.

• Dreamers, by Yuyi Morales.

• Merci Suárez Changes Gears, by Meg Medina.

• Harbor Me, by Jacqueline Woodson.

• The Poet X, by Elizabeth Acevedo. (Also a National Book Awards longlist pick.)

• Children of Blood and Bone, by Tomi Adeyemi.