As the contest comes to an end, the finalists for the National Book Awards have been announced! The list includes incredible works of literature about everything from about a runaway slave, friendship, a non-fiction exploration on the Attica prison uprising, collected poetry, and many more. Here are the finalists!
Finalists for Fiction:
Chris Bachelder, The Throwback Special
W. W. Norton & Company
Paulette Jiles, News of the World
William Morrow
Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs
Viking Books
Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad
Doubleday
Jacqueline Woodson, Another Brooklyn
Amistad
Finalists for Nonfiction:
Arlie Russell Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
The New Press
Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Nation Books
Viet Thanh Nguyen, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
Harvard University Press
Andrés Reséndez, The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Heather Ann Thompson, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
Pantheon
Finalists for Poetry:
Daniel Borzutzky, The Performance of Becoming Human
Brooklyn Arts Press
Rita Dove, Collected Poems 1974–2004
W. W. Norton & Company
Peter Gizzi, Archeophonics
Wesleyan University Press
Jay Hopler, The Abridged History of Rainfall
McSweeney’s
Solmaz Sharif, Look
Graywolf Press
Finalists for Young People’s Literature:
Kate DiCamillo, Raymie Nightingale
Candlewick Press
John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell, March: Book Three
Top Shelf Productions
Grace Lin, When the Sea Turned to Silver
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Jason Reynolds, Ghost
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star
Delacorte Press
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