Timothy Egan won the 2024 Washington State Book Award in general nonfiction for A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them. Congrats to him on what is so far an excellent read. I recently started it even before the Washington Center for the Book announced the awards.

I am very pleased and humbled that Biking Uphill in the Rain was named as a finalist for the award, and I’ve been having a great time reading through some of the other great books on the list. I’m dual wielding Egan’s book and memoir finalist Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer, and then I’ve got fiction finalist I Never Dreamed You’d Leave in Summer by Robert Lashley on deck.

So if you’re looking for a good read as the nights get longer, go check out the winners and finalists.