Friday, September 29, 2017
2017 CT Book Award Finalists
Fiction
Back Lash by Chris Knopf
I’ll Take You There by Wally Lamb
Shadows of Paris by Eric D. Lehman
Cajun Waltz by Robert H. Patton
Beneath a Shooting Star by Susan Harrison Rashid
Non-Fiction
Rare Light by Anne Dawson
Never Look an American in the Eye by Okey Ndibe
The Lost White Tribe by Michael Robinson
Poetry
The Banquet by Gray Jacobik
Barrel Children by Rayon Lennon
The Meeting House by Marilyn Nelson
Fugitives by Danielle Pieratti
Young Readers
All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook by Leslie Connor
The Weight of Zero by Karen Fortunati
Ada’s Violin by Susan Hood
The Unexpected Everything by Morgan Matson
Good Night, Bat! Good Morning, Squirrel! by Paul Meisel
Source: CT Center for the Book