October 6, 2016
The finalists for this year's National Book Award have been announced, comprised of the best literature from the last year. Five finalists remain in the running in each of the four categories - Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry and Young People's Literature - and a winner from each will be selected and announced on November 16. Each winner will be awarded with a medal, statue and $10,000.
Take a gander at the finalists in each category below, then visit our catalog to check out and read some of them for yourself!
Fiction
The Throwback Special by Chris Bachelder
News of the World by Paulette Jiles
The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
Nonfiction
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War by Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America by Andrés Reséndez
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson
Poetry
The Performance of Becoming Human by Daniel Borzutsky
Collected Poems 1974-2004 by Rita Dove
Archeophonics by Peter Gizzi
The Abridged History of Rainfall by Jay Hopler
Look by Solmaz Sharif
Young People's Literature
Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo
March: Book Three by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell
When the Sea Turned to Silver by Grace Lin
Ghost by Jason Reynolds
The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
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