Today the National Book Foundation announced the twenty-five finalists for this year’s National Book Awards, with five finalists in each category.
Fiction
- A Lucky Man
by Jamel Brinkley
Purchase from Amazon - Florida
by Lauren Groff
Purchase on Amazon - Where the Dead Sit Talking
by Brandon Hobson
Purchase on Amazon - The Great Believers
by Rebecca Makkai
Purchase on Amazon - The Friend
by Sigrid Nunez
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Nonfiction
- The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation
by Colin G. Calloway
Purchase on Amazon - American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic
by Victoria Johnson
Purchase on Amazon - Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
by Sarah Smarsh
Purchase on Amazon - The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
by Jeffrey C. Stewart
Purchase on Amazon - We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
by Adam Winkler
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Poetry
- Wobble
by Rae Armantrout
Purchase from Amazon - American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
by Terrance Hayes
Purchase on Amazon - Ghost Of
by Diana Khoi Nguyen
Purchase on Amazon - Indecency
by Justin Phillip Reed
Purchase on Amazon - Eye Level
by Jenny Xie
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Translated Literature
- Disoriental
by Négar Djavadi
translated by Tina Kover
Purchase from Amazon - Love
by Hanne Ørstavik
translated by Martin Aitken
Purchase on Amazon - Trick
by Domenica Starnone
translated by Jhumpa Lahiri
Purchase on Amazon - The Emissary
by Yoko Tawada
translated by Margaret Mitsutani
Purchase on Amazon - Flights
by Olga Tokarczuk
translated by Jennifer Croft
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Young People’s Literature
- The Poet X
by Elizabeth Acevedo
Purchase on Amazon - The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge
by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
Purchase on Amazon - The Truth As Told by Mason Buttle
by Leslie Connor
Purchase on Amazon - The Journey of Little Charlie
by Christopher Paul Curtis
Purchase on Amazon - Hey, Kiddo
by Jarrett J. Krosoczka
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