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<p><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">Making your ‘To Be Read’ list? Checking it twice? #TreatYourShelf (or others) this holiday season with titles from RUSA’s award lists selected and reviewed by our expert librarians.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">The <strong><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"><a href="http://www.ala.org/awardsgrants/carnegieadult">Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction</a></span></strong> recognize
the best fiction and nonfiction books for adult readers published in the U.S. the previous year. A<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.ala.org/awardsgrants/carnegieadult/longlists">longlist</a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>comprised
of no more than 50 titles is released in September.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.ala.org/awardsgrants/carnegieadult/short-lists">Six finalists (shortlist)</a>, three fiction and three nonfiction, are announced in October,
pictured above.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333"><a href="http://www.ala.org/rusa/awards/notablebooks">Notable Books List</a> </span></strong><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">selected by<strong><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif"> </span></strong>the
Notable Books Council, is a list of 25 very good, very readable and at times, very important fiction, nonfiction and poetry books for adult readers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333"><a href="http://www.ala.org/rusa/awards/readinglist"><strong><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:blue">The Reading List</span></strong></a> seeks to highlight outstanding genre fiction from
each of the current eight different categories including adrenaline, fantasy, historical fiction, horror, mystery, romance, science fiction and women’s fiction.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333"><a href="http://www.ala.org/rusa/awards/listenlist">The Listen List: Outstanding Audiobook Narration</a>,</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333"> </span></b></span><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333">seeks
to highlight outstanding audiobook titles that merit special attention and includes twelve titles including fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333"><a href="http://www.ala.org/rusa/awards/brody">The Sophie Brody Award</a></span></strong><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333"> is given to encourage, recognize and commend outstanding
achievement in Jewish literature. In the context of this award, Jewish literature is defined as fiction, nonfiction or poetry that has as its central purpose the exploration of the Jewish experience.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">Melissa A. Tracy<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">Marketing & Programs Specialist<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif"><a href="http://www.ala.org/ascla/"><span style="color:blue">Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies (ASCLA)</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif"><a href="http://rusa.ala.org/update/"><span style="color:blue">Reference and User Services Association (RUSA)</span></a>
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