The 2018 Nominations are Now OPEN!

The 2018 Cybils nominations are now live! Some quick reminders: First off, be sure to check out our category descriptions. If you don’t know where the book should go, please read through the descriptions to help you decide. If you’re still not quite sure, make your best guess, and we can straighten things out behind the scenes. Take a minute …

2018 Nominations: Poetry

Please view the full blog post to see a list of all 2018 nominated books in the Poetry category.

On Your Mark… Get Set…

If you’re anything like us, you’ve been thinking for the past few weeks about all the books you want to nominate. And, if you’re anything like us, you (hopefully) have a few back-ups in case your first choice is already taken (which happens more than you would think!). If you haven’t come up with your lists of favorite books in …

Category Description: Young Adult Speculative Fiction

Speculative Fiction takes us to realms of the imagination: places and times and realities where the rules of life may be different than our own and where the impossible and improbable become real. But good science fiction and fantasy does more than that: it asks, “What if?” It makes us think. It holds up a mirror to our own society …