FICTION
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday)
HISTORY
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson (Pantheon)
BIOGRAPHY
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar (Random House)
POETRY
Olio by Tyehimba Jess (Wave Books)
GENERAL NONFICTION
Evicted:Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond (Crown)
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