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Every year, the booksellers at Powell’s submit their Top Fives: their five favorite books that were released in 2023. It’s a list that, when put together, shows just how varied and interesting the book tastes of Powell’s booksellers are. I highly recommend digging into the recommendations — we would never lead you astray — but today...

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Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize has been awarded by Columbia University each spring since 1917. The awards are chosen by a board of jurors for Journalism, Letters, Music, and Drama.

2024 Winners:

Fiction Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips Epic, enthralling, and meticulously crafted, Night Watch is a stunning chronicle of surviving war and its aftermath.	Nonfiction Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy by Nathan Thrall Immersive and gripping, A Day in the Life of Abed Salama is an indelibly human portrait of the Jewish-Palestinian struggle that offers a new understanding of the tragic history and reality of one of the most contested places on earth.
Poetry Tripas by Brandon Som Invested in the circuitry and circuitous routes of migration and labor, Som's lyricism weaves together the narratives of his transnational communities, bringing to light what is overshadowed in the reckless transit of global capitalism and imagining a world otherwise — one attuned to the echo in the hecho, the oracle in the órale.	History No Right to an Honest Living: The Struggles of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era by Jacqueline Jones Highlighting the everyday struggles of ordinary Black workers, this book shows how injustice in the workplace prevented Boston — and the United States — from securing true equality for all.
Biography King: A Life by Jonathan Eig In this landmark biography, Eig gives us an MLK for our times: a deep thinker, a brilliant strategist, and a committed radical who led one of history's greatest movements, and whose demands for racial and economic justice remain as urgent today as they were in his lifetime.	Biography Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon Woo The remarkable true story of Ellen and William Craft, who escaped slavery through daring, determination, and disguise, with Ellen passing as a wealthy, disabled White man and William posing as "his" slave.
Autobiography Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sisters Search for Justice by Cristina Rivera Garza Through this remarkable and genre-defying memoir, Rivera Garza confronts the trauma of losing her sister and examines from multiple angles how this tragedy continues to shape who she is — and what she fights for — today.