Barnes & Noble

Abby Geni of Chicago won the 2016 Discover Award in Fiction for her novel, The Lightkeepers (Counterpoint). She received $30,000. Yaa Gyasi of Berkeley, California, won the $15,000 second-place prize for her novel, Homegoing (Knopf), and Jung Yun of Baltimore won the $7,500 third-place prize for her novel, Shelter (Picador). Wiley Cash, Benjamin Percy, and Emma Straub judged. Matthew Desmond of Cambridge, Massachusetts, won the $30,000 Discover Award in Nonfiction for his book Evicted: Poverty and

Profit in the American City (Crown). Hope Jahren of Oslo, Norway, won the $15,000 second-place prize for her memoir, Lab Girl (Knopf), and Patrick Phillips of New York City won the $7,500 third-place prize for his book Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America (W. W. Norton). Jennifer Finney Boylan, Sloane Crosley, and Brando Skyhorse judged. The annual awards are given for works of fiction and nonfiction published during the previous year and featured in Barnes & Noble’s Discover Great New Writers program. As of this writing, the next deadline has not been set.