Here Are This Year's National Book Award Finalists
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The 2017 National Book Award finalists were announced today, with some of the year's buzziest titles getting recognition. There are four categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young people's literature. The winners will be announced on Nov. 15, so get acquainted with the books and add some to your Fall reading list!
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The Leavers by Lisa Ko
Category: Fiction
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Dark at the Crossing by Elliot Ackerman
Category: Fiction
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Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
Category: Fiction
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Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
Category: Fiction
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Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Category: Fiction
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Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Category: Nonfiction
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Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America by Nancy MacLean
Category: Nonfiction
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The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen
Category: Nonfiction
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The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America by Frances FitzGerald
Category: Nonfiction
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
Category: Nonfiction
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Half-Light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 by Frank Bidart
Category: Poetry
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Whereas by Layli Long Soldier
Category: Poetry
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The Book of Endings by Leslie Harrison
Category: Poetry
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Don't Call Us Dead: Poems by Danez Smith
Category: Poetry
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In the Language of My Captor by Shane McCrae
Category: Poetry
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Far From the Tree by Robin Benway
Category: Young People's Literature
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What Girls Are Made Of by Elana K. Arnold
Category: Young People's Literature
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American Street by Ibi Zoboi
Category: Young People's Literature
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Clayton Byrd Goes Underground by Rita Williams-Garcia
Category: Young People's Literature
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I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez
Category: Young People's Literature