{"id":22736,"date":"2017-10-04T16:25:09","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T20:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/?p=22736"},"modified":"2017-10-04T16:38:05","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T20:38:05","slug":"2017-national-book-award-shortlists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mookseandgripes.com\/reviews\/2017\/10\/04\/2017-national-book-award-shortlists\/","title":{"rendered":"2017 National Book Award Shortlists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" 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sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This morning, the four shortlists for the 2017 National Book Award were announced!<\/p>\n<p>The Amazon links below are affiliate links, so if you use them a small cut of your purchase comes back to and helps support The Mookse and the Gripes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Dark at the Crossing<\/strong><\/em>, by Elliot Ackerman (<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2wh5tvc\">Amazon.com<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The Leavers<\/strong><\/em>, by Lisa Ko\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2x7vvjn\">Amazon.com<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Pachinko<\/em><\/strong>, by Min Jin Lee\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2x1oxxp\">Amazon.com<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Her Body and Other Parties: Stories<\/strong><\/em>, by Carmen Maria Machado\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2wgHnRz\">Amazon.com<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>A Kind of Freedom<\/strong><\/em>, by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton (<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2x7XUWu\">Amazon.com<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Sing, Unburied, Sing<\/strong><\/em>, by Jesmyn Ward (<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2x2cVdc\">Amazon.com<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fiction Judges: Alexander Chee, Dave Eggers, Annie Philbrick, Karolina Waclawiak, Jacqueline Woodson (Chair)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Nonfiction<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>Never Caught: The Washingtons&#8217; Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge<\/strong><\/em>, by Erica Armstrong Dunbar\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2wuFv2G\">Amazon.com<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America<\/strong><\/em>, by Frances FitzGerald\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2x7TK0T\">Amazon.com<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia<\/strong><\/em>, by Masha Gessen\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2wgrMkS\">Amazon.com<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI<\/strong><\/em>, by David Grann\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2x2ewzJ\">Amazon.com<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right&#8217;s Stealth Plan for America<\/strong><\/em>, by Nancy MacLean (<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2x7MW3u\">Amazon.com<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nonfiction Judges: Steve Bercu, Jeff Chang, Ruth Franklin, Paula J. Giddings (Chair), Valeria Luiselli<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Poetry<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965\u00a0\u2013 2016<\/em><\/strong>, by Frank Bidart\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2x2dsfc\">Amazon.com<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>The Book of Endings<\/em><\/strong>, by Leslie Harrison\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2wvc2Wn\">Amazon.com<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>WHEREAS<\/em><\/strong>, by Layli Long Soldier\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2xEB62j\">Amazon.com<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>In the Language of My Captor<\/em><\/strong>, by Shane McCrae\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2x7WStX\">Amazon.com<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>Don&#8217;t Call Us Dead: Poems<\/strong><\/em>, by Danez Smith\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2x2teqs\">Amazon.com<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Poetry Judges: Nick Flynn, Jane Mead, Gregory Pardio, Richard Siken, Monica Youn (Chair)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Young People&#8217;s Literature<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>What Girls Are Made Of<\/em><\/strong>, by Elana K. Arnold\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2x1ppCb\">Amazon.com<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Far from the Tree<\/em><\/strong>, by Robin Benway\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2x2bUls\">Amazon.com<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><strong><em>I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter<\/em><\/strong>, by Erika L. 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