Barnes & Noble has announced the winners for the 2016 Discover Great New Writers Awards. The winners in each category received a $30,000 prize and a full year of promotion from B&N. Runner-up authors got $15,000, and third place $7,500.

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2016 Winners

Fiction

Winner
THE LIGHTKEEPERS by Abby Geni (Counterpoint)

2nd Place
HOMEGOING by Yaa Gyasi (Knopf)

3rd Place
SHELTER by Jung Yun (Picador)

Nonfiction

Winner
EVICTED: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond (Crown)

2nd Place
LAB GIRL by Hope Jahren (Knopf)

3rd Place
BLOOD AT THE ROOT: A Racial Cleansing in America by Patrick Phillips (Norton)

2016 Finalists

Fiction
 

• HOMEGOING by Yaa Gyasi (Knopf)
• THE LIGHTKEEPERS by Abby Geni (Counterpoint)
• SHELTER by Jung Yun (Picador)

Nonfiction
 

• BLOOD AT THE ROOT: A Racial Cleansing in America by Patrick Phillips (Norton)
• EVICTED: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond (Crown)
• LAB GIRL by Hope Jahren (Knopf)