Book of the Year Award Finalists
Bury the Lede
by Gaby Dunn & Claire Roe (BOOM! Studios)
Clyde Fans
by Seth (Drawn & Quarterly)
King of King Court
by Travis Dandro (Drawn & Quarterly)
Putuga & Kublu and the Qalupalik
by Roselynn Akulukjuk, Danny Christopher, & Astrid Arijanto (Inhabit Media)
Camp
by Kayla Miller (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
The Crossover
by Kwame Alexander & Dawud Anyabwile (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)\
Kiss Number 8
by Colleen AF Venable & Ellen T. Crenshaw (Macmillan Publishers)
White Bird: A Wonder Story
by R. J. Palacio (Random House Children’s Books)
Mosaic Award Finalists
Akissi: More Tales of Mischief
by Marguerite Abouet & Mathieu Sapin (Flying Eye Books)
The Crossover
by Kwame Alexander & Dawud Anyabwile (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Hicotea: A Nightlights Story
by Lorena Alvarez (Nobrow)
Putuga & Kublu and the Qalupalik
by Roselynn Akulukjuk, Danny Christopher, & Astrid Arijanto (Inhabit Media)
Carpe Fin: A Haida Manga
by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas (Harbour Publishing)
Grease Bats
by Archie Bongiovanni (BOOM! Studios)
Kiss Number 8
by Colleen AF Venable & Ellen T. Crenshaw (Macmillan Publishers)
Shout Out
by Andrew Wheeler, BC Holmes, Joamette Gil & various (TO Comix Press)
Children’s Award Finalists – Fiction
Akissi: More Tales of Mischief
by Marguerite Abouet & Mathieu Sapin (Flying Eye Books)
Hex Vet: The Flying Surgery
by Sam Davies (BOOM! Studios)
Kai and the Monkey King
by Joe Todd-Stanton (Flying Eye Books)
Chicken Soup & Goji Berries
by Naomi Cui & Janice Liu (Cloudscape Comics)
Hilo 5: Then Everything Went Wrong
by Judd Winick (RH Children’s Books)
Middle-Grade Award Finalists – Nonfiction
Rocket to the Moon!: BIG IDEAS That Changed the World #1
by Don Brown (ABRAMS Amulet Books)
Major Impossible (Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales #9)
by Nathan Hale (ABRAMS Amulet Books)
Wait, What? A Comic Book Guide to Relationships, Bodies, and Growing Up
by Heather Corinna & Isabella Rotman (Oni Press)
Guts
by Raina Telgemeier (Scholastic)
Survivors of the Holocaust
by Kath Shackleton & Zane Whittingham (Sourcebooks Explore)
Young Adult Award Finalists – Fiction
Hot Comb
by Ebony Flowers (Drawn & Quarterly)
Kiss Number 8
by Colleen AF Venable & Ellen T. Crenshaw (Macmillan Publishers)
Stage Dreams
by Melanie Gillman (Lerner Publishing Group)
King Shaka: Zulu Legend
Luke Molver (Catalyst Press/Story Press Africa)
Shout Out
by Andrew Wheeler, BC Holmes, Joamette Gil & various (TO Comix Press)
Young Adult Award Finalists – Nonfiction
The Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby Vol. 2
by Marek Bennett (Comics Workshop)
Fever Year: The Killer Flu of 1918 by Don Brown
by Don Brown (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
The American Dream? A Journey on Route 66 Discovering Dinosaur Statues, Muffler Men, and the Perfect Breakfast Burrito
by Shing Yin Khor (Lerner Publishing Group)
King of King Court
by Travis Dandro (Drawn & Quarterly)
Showtime at the Apollo: The Epic Tale of Harlem’s Legendary Theater
by Ted Fox & James Otis Smith (ABRAMS ComicArts)
Adult Award Finalists – Fiction
Bloodlust & Bonnets
by Emily McGovern (Andrews McMeel Publishing)
Clyde Fans
by Seth (Drawn & Quarterly)
Vanni: A Family’s Struggle through the Sri Lankan Conflict
by Benjamin Dix & Lindsay Pollock (Penn State University Press)
Carpe Fin: A Haida Manga
by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas (Harbour Publishing)
The Hard Tomorrow
by Eleanor Davis (Drawn & Quarterly)
Adult Award Finalists – Nonfiction
Americana (and the Act of Getting Over It.)
by Luke Healy (Nobrow)
Hawking
by Jim Ottaviani & Leland Myrick (Macmillan Publishers)
The Twilight Man: Rod Serling and the Birth of Television
by Koren Shadmi (Humanoids)
A Fire Story
by Brian Fies (ABRAMS Books)
In Waves
by AJ Dungo (Nobrow)
