2017 National Book Award Shortlists - The Mookse and the Gripes

This morning, the four shortlists for the 2017 National Book Award were announced!

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Fiction

Dark at the Crossing, by Elliot Ackerman (Amazon.com)
The Leavers, by Lisa Ko (Amazon.com)
Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee (Amazon.com)
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories, by Carmen Maria Machado (Amazon.com)
A Kind of Freedom, by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton (Amazon.com)
Sing, Unburied, Sing, by Jesmyn Ward (Amazon.com)

Fiction Judges: Alexander Chee, Dave Eggers, Annie Philbrick, Karolina Waclawiak, Jacqueline Woodson (Chair)

Nonfiction

Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge, by Erica Armstrong Dunbar (Amazon.com)
The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America, by Frances FitzGerald (Amazon.com)
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, by Masha Gessen (Amazon.com)
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, by David Grann (Amazon.com)
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America, by Nancy MacLean (Amazon.com)

Nonfiction Judges: Steve Bercu, Jeff Chang, Ruth Franklin, Paula J. Giddings (Chair), Valeria Luiselli

Poetry

Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965 – 2016, by Frank Bidart (Amazon.com)
The Book of Endings, by Leslie Harrison (Amazon.com)
WHEREAS, by Layli Long Soldier (Amazon.com)
In the Language of My Captor, by Shane McCrae (Amazon.com)
Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems, by Danez Smith (Amazon.com)
Poetry Judges: Nick Flynn, Jane Mead, Gregory Pardio, Richard Siken, Monica Youn (Chair)