American Library in Paris Book Award 2024 Submissions

Updated May 5, 2024
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Beasts of Paris
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
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.
A bakery in Paris.
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...
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...
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...

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