Award nominations
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August Thompson recommends
Upward Bound (2026)
Woody Brown
"Deft, wry, gorgeous, and, most important, humanist, Upward Bound is one of those novels you want to give to everyone in your life. To help them understand the world a little better, to feel more deeply, to laugh, to know they are part of something greater."
All Them Dogs (2026)
Djamel White
"All Them Dogs is as compelling as your favourite gangster movie, as profound as your favourite novel. So sexy and tender and dangerous and poetic and frightening."
The Sunflower Boys (2025)
Sam Wachman
"The Sunflower Boys is both timely and timeless - a look at the persistence of ache, love, and tenderness in a brutal world. Wachman has written a novel that is pure life-force. This is a book I will return to for the rest of my life."
