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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)
Young People’s Literature
- What Girls Are Made Of, by Elana K. Arnold (Amazon.com)
- Far from the Tree, by Robin Benway (Amazon.com)
- I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, by Erika L. Sánchez (Amazon.com)
- Clayton Byrd Goes Underground, by Rita Williams-Garcia (Amazon.com)
- American Street, by Ibi Zoobi (Amazon.com)
Young People’s Literature Judges: Suzanna Hermans, Brendan Kiely, Kekla Magoon, Meg Medina (Chair), Alex Sanchez
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