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The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle
Simon & Schuster

The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle

Lillian Faderman

“The most comprehensive history to date of America’s gay-rights movement.” — The Economist A New York Times Notable Book of 2015 The sweeping story of the modern struggle for gay, lesbian, and trans rights—from the 1950s to the present—based on amazing interviews with politicians, military figures, legal activists, and members of the entire LGBT community who face these challenges every day. The fight for gay, lesbian, and trans civil rights—the years of outrageous injustice, the early battles, the heart-breaking defeats, and the victories beyond the dreams of the gay rights pioneers—is the most important civil rights issue of the present day. Based on rigorous research and more than 150 interviews, The Gay Revolution tells this unfinished story not through dry facts but through dramatic accounts of passionate struggles, with all the sweep, depth, and intricacies only an award-winning activist, scholar, and novelist like Lillian Faderman can evoke. The Gay Revolution begins in the 1950s, when law classified gays and lesbians as criminals, the psychiatric profession saw them as mentally ill, the churches saw them as sinners, and society victimized them with irrational hatred. Against this dark backdrop, a few brave people began to fight back, paving the way for the revolutionary changes of the 1960s and beyond. Faderman discusses the protests in the 1960s; the counter reaction of the 1970s and early eighties; the decimated but united community during the AIDS epidemic; and the current hurdles for the right to marriage equality. In the words of the eyewitnesses who were there through the most critical events, The Gay Revolution paints a nuanced portrait of the LGBT civil rights movement. A defining account, this is the most complete and authoritative book of its kind.

Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
Avery

NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity

Steve Silberman, Oliver Sacks

A New York Times bestseller Winner of the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction A groundbreaking book that upends conventional thinking about autism and suggests a broader model for acceptance, understanding, and full participation in society for people who think differently. What is autism? A lifelong disability, or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? In truth, it is all of these things and more—and the future of our society depends on our understanding it. WIRED reporter Steve Silberman unearths the secret history of autism, long suppressed by the same clinicians who became famous for discovering it, and finds surprising answers to the crucial question of why the number of diagnoses has soared in recent years. Going back to the earliest days of autism research and chronicling the brave and lonely journey of autistic people and their families through the decades, Silberman provides long-sought solutions to the autism puzzle, while mapping out a path for our society toward a more humane world in which people with learning differences and those who love them have access to the resources they need to live happier, healthier, more secure, and more meaningful lives. Along the way, he reveals the untold story of Hans Asperger, the father of Asperger’s syndrome, whose “little professors” were targeted by the darkest social-engineering experiment in human history; exposes the covert campaign by child psychiatrist Leo Kanner to suppress knowledge of the autism spectrum for fifty years; and casts light on the growing movement of "neurodiversity" activists seeking respect, support, technological innovation, accommodations in the workplace and in education, and the right to self-determination for those with cognitive differences.

Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
Titus n'amait pas Berenice
POL

Titus n'amait pas Berenice

Nathalie Azoulai

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Prix Médicis
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, 1)
Orbit

The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, 1)

N. K. Jemisin

A novel set in a world where geological catastrophe is ordinary, tracing the oppression and survival of people with special powers. It combines environmental collapse with systems of discrimination to create a vivid end-of-the-world vision.

Hugo Award
Way Station
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Way Station

Clifford D. Simak

The story of a man guarding a galactic relay station hidden inside a farm house in Wisconsin. In a quiet rural landscape, the point where Earth meets the cosmos slowly opens up.

Hugo Award