Children's

Bro­ken Strings

Eric Wal­ters and Kathy Kacer

Nonfiction

Long Live the Tribe of Father­less Girls

T Kira Madden

Fiction

Fleish­man is in Trouble

Taffy Brodess­er-Akn­er

Nonfiction

The Art of Bible Translation

Robert Alter

Fiction

The Altru­ists

Andrew Rid­ker

Fiction

The Lake on Fire

Rosellen Brown

Nonfiction

Wit­ness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom

Ariel Burg­er

Nonfiction

Spies of No Coun­try: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel

Mat­ti Fried­man Win­ner of the 2018 Natan Book Award 

Fiction

Sweep: The Sto­ry of a Girl and Her Monster

Jonathan Aux­i­er

Nonfiction

Har­vey Milk: His Lives and Death

Lil­lian Faderman

Visual Arts

Sara Berman’s Closet

Maira Kalman, Alex Kalman

Nonfiction

Conan Doyle for the Defense: The True Sto­ry of a Sen­sa­tion­al British Mur­der, a Quest for Jus­tice, and the World’s Most Famous Detec­tive Writer

Mar­galit Fox

Fiction

Wild Milk: Stories

Sab­ri­na Orah Mark

Poetry

Holy Moly Car­ry Me: Poems

Eri­ka Meitner

Fiction

Those Who Knew: A Novel

Idra Novey

Fiction

The Part­ing Gift

Evan Fal­l­en­berg

Fiction

Moth­er­hood: A Novel

Sheila Heti

Children's

All-of-a-Kind Fam­i­ly Hanukkah

Emi­ly Jenk­ins; Paul O. Zelin­sky, illus.

Nonfiction

Belong­ing: A Ger­man Reck­ons with His­to­ry and Home

Nora Krug

Fiction

A Ter­ri­ble Country

Kei­th Gessen