Kirkus book prize finalists vie for three new $50,000 awards

Quick: Who won this year’s Chautauqua Prize? How about the George Washington Prize or the Bellwether Prize? Can you name a single Spur, Lammy or RITA winner?

I didn’t think so.

Britain’s Man Booker judges considered Americans this year for the first time, but neither of the two U.S. novels on the short­list (Karen Joy Fowler’s “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves” and Joshua Ferris’s “To Rise Again at a Decent Hour”) has been elevated to the bestseller list by that news.

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