American Library in Paris Book Award 2024 Submissions

Updated May 5, 2024
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The beasts of Paris : a novel
Penney, Stef
In Paris 1870, three wandering souls find themselves in a city set to descend into war. 'A historical epic that Jessie Burton fans will adore' GRAZIA 'Exquisite, relevant and immersive' ANNA MAZZOLA 'A triumph' GUARDIAN
Nothing ever just disappears : seven hidden queer histories
Hester, Diarmuid
An exploration of artistic freedom, survival, and the hidden places of the imagination, including James Baldwin in Provence, Josephine Baker in Paris, Kevin Killian in San Francisco, and E. M. Forster in Cambridge, among other groundbreaking queer artists of the twentieth century.
The night war
Bradley, Kimberly Brubaker
From the two-time Newbery Honor-winning author of The War That Saved My Life and Fighting Words comes a middle grade novel set at the border between freedom and fear in World War II France, at the Chateau de Chenonceau, where a Jewish girl who has lost everything but her life must...
The once upon a time world : the dark and sparkling story of the French Riviera
Miles, Jonathan
*A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice* Chronicling two-hundred years of glamour, intrigue, and hedonism, this rich and vivid history of the French Riviera features a vast cast of characters, from Pablo Picasso and Coco Chanel to Andre Matisse and James...
Audrey Hepburn in Paris
Friedlander, Meghan.
Introduction by Luca Dotti and Foreword by Giambattista Valli A gorgeous, sophisticated celebration of Audrey Hepburn's lifelong connection to the City of Light, featuring all the places in Paris she loved most, illustrated with vivid photographs, and featuring never-before...
Alchemy of a blackbird : a novel
McMillan, Claire
Named a Best Book of 2023 by Book Riot For fans of The Age of Light and Z comes a "beguiling novel of artistic ambition, perseverance, and friendship" (Katy Hays, New York Times bestselling author) based on the true story of the 20th-century...
The rebel's clinic : the revolutionary lives of Frantz Fanon
Shatz, Adam
Named a best book of 2024 by The New Yorker and Vulture Named a most anticipated book of 2024 by Foreign Policy | Lit Hub | The Millions "Nimble and engrossing. . . [An] exemplary work of public intellectualism." -...
Written by one of our 2024 Visting Fellow, Adam Shatz.
Young queens : three Renaissance women and the price of power
Chang, Leah L.
Finalist for The Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Biography) One of the New Yorker's Best Books of 2023 One of BookRiot's Best Biographies of 2023 Longlisted for the 2024 Women's Prize in Nonfiction The boldly...
Liberated : the radical art and life of Claude Cahun
Rowe, Kaz
Illustrator Kaz Rowe's graphic biography Liberated: The Radical Art and Life of Claude Cahun, reveals how the creative and courageous Surrealist artist championed freedom at every turn, from rejecting gender norms and finding queer love to risking death to sabotage the Nazis.
A bakery in Paris : a novel
Runyan, Aimie K.
From the author of The School for German Brides, this captivating historical novel set in nineteenth-century and post-World War II Paris follows two fierce women of the same family, generations apart, who find that their futures lie in the four walls of a simple bakery in a tiny...
Fixing France: How to Repair a Broken Republic
Ramdani, Nabila
A French-Algerian journalist, born and brought up in a neglected Paris suburb, offers unique insight into crisis-ridden France from a very different perspective to the establishment elites France, the romanticized,...
The war begins in Paris : a novel
Wheeler, Theodore
From the author of Kings of Broken Things and In Our Other Lives comes a "powerful, immersive" literary noir about two female World War II correspondents whose fates intertwine in Europe (Caitlin Horrocks). Paris, 1938. Two women meet: Mielle, a shy pacifist and...
Murder at la Villette
Black, Cara
Aimee Leduc's ex Melac, her daughter's father, has been hounding her for weeks, pressuring her to move little Chloe to Brittany, threatening to take her to court for custody - all but stalking her. Harassed and fed up, Aimee has stopped taking his calls. That's why she doesn't know as she's leaving...
The revolutionary temper : Paris, 1748-1789
Darnton, Robert
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A groundbreaking account of the coming of the French Revolution from a historian of worldwide acclaim. When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow...
Paris is not dead : surviving hypergentrification in the city of light
Stangler, Cole
A street-level people's view of one of the world's beloved cities, in a stunning debut that blends cutting-edge reporting and sweeping political analysis of a changing Paris "Working-class Paris is still around today, as real as the cobblestones, gray zinc roofs, and dusty...
The boy with the star tattoo : a novel
Carner, Talia
From acclaimed author of The Third Daughter comes an epic historical novel of ingenuity and courage, of love and loss, spanning postwar France when Israeli agents roamed the countryside to rescue hidden Jewish orphans--to the 1969 daring escape of the Israeli boats of Cherbourg. 1942: As...
There's going to be trouble : a novel
Silverman, Jen
A woman is pulled into a love affair with a radical activist, unknowingly echoing her family's dangerous past and risking the foundations of her future in this electrifying novel. "An exhilarating novel of star-crossed romances and radical politics, with writing so evocative I...
Star crossed : a true Romeo and Juliet story in Hitler's Paris
Macadam, Heather Dune
Paris, 1940. The City of Light has fallen under German Occupation. Among patriotic Parisians, the pursuit of art, culture, and jazz have become bold acts of defiance. So has forbidden romance for talented and spirited Jewish teenager Annette Zelman, a student at the Beaux-Arts, and dashing young...
Wolves of winter
Jones, Dan
For the Dogs, the war has only just begun. Caught up in the siege of Calais, in the midst of a brutal eleven-month blockade of a small port on the French coast, they are no longer blindly walking into the unknown. But the men still have more questions than answers about what...

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