2018 B&N Discover Award Shortlist

Jan 29, 2019

Barnes & Noble has announced the six finalists for its 2018 Discover Awards.The Discover Great New Writers program, which celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2015, recognizes great fiction and nonfiction books from authors at the start of their careers. The six winners of the Discover Great New Writers Awards will share a cash prize totaling $105,000 and will be announced on Wednesday, March 6, at a private awards ceremony in New York City. The top winners in each category, fiction and nonfiction, will receive a $30,000 prize and a full year of promotion from Barnes & Noble. Second-place finalists will receive $15,000 each, and third-place finalists $7,500 each.

The finalists for the 2018 Discover Great New Writers Awards are:

Fiction:

  • Only Killers and Thieves by Paul Howarth (Harper)
  • A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza (SJP for Hogarth)
  • There There by Tommy Orange (Knopf) 

Nonfiction:

  • American Prison by Shane Bauer (Penguin Press)
  • Educated by Tara Westover (Random House)
  • Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon (Scribner)
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