Some of My Friends Are... by Deborah L. Plummer

Greenidge The Body Papers by Grace Talusan City on a Hill by Alex Krieger Once More to the Rodeo by Calvin Hennick The Optimist’s Telescope by Bina Venkataraman Some of My Friends Are by Deborah L. World by Jennifer Acker On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong Repentance by Andrew Lam This Is Not a Love Song by Brendan Mathews Wake Siren by Nina MacLaughlinĪmerican Radicals by Holly Jackson Black Radical by Kerri K. The Age of Light by Whitney Scharer Big Giant Floating Head by Christopher Boucher Blue Hours by Daphne Kalotay Bunny by Mona Awad A Kind of Solitude by Dariel Suarez Leading Men by Christopher Castellani The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbull The Limits of the In August, the Center will announce the award winner and two honors titles in each of the five award categories with the hope of celebrating all titles in the program at a 20th anniversary reception in the Fall. “It’s beautiful to check in with what’s being done around the state – and to give a boost to fiction that deserves to be widely read,” stated William Pierce, Coeditor of AGNI Magazine and lead fiction judge for this year’s Mass Book Awards. Ideas and research to inform better individual and societal decisions about climate change and other issues. In nonfiction, The Optimist’s Telescope (Riverhead) by Bina Venkataraman reports positive

Cadwell Turnbull’sĭebut novel, The Lesson (Blackstone), provides science fiction set in the Virgin Islands the arrival of aliens affect island society, hinting at themes of colonialism and violence. Blue Hours (Triquarterly Books) is a page-turning mystery by Daphne Kalotay, following a woman to Afghanistan in 2012 in search of a friend made in Manhattan two decades earlier. This year’s longlist for fiction includes two Somerville authors. The awards recognize significant works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for adults and young readers written by Massachusetts authors and published during the preceding calendar year. Three Somerville Authors on Massachusetts Book Awards “Must Reads” Massachusetts Center for the Book (MCB) is pleased to announce the “Must Read” longlists in the 20th annual Massachusetts Book Awards.

Some of My Friends Are... by Deborah L. Plummer