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