It’s Here! The National Book Award Finalists
We recently highlighted all the of the books longlisted for the 2023 National Book Award. Now, we are one step closer to figuring out all of the winners for Fiction, Translated Fiction, Nonfiction, and Young People’s Literature. While we have to wait until November to officially find out the winners, until then, you can catch up on this year’s exceptional releases who are up for the prize. Which authors are you rooting for?
FICTION
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
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Temple Folk by Aaliyah Bilal
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This Other Eden by Paul Harding
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The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen
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Blackouts by Justin Torres (Preorder)
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TRANSLATED LITERATURE
Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur
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Beyond the Door of No Return by David Diop, translated by Sam Taylor (Preorder)
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The Words That Remain by Stenio Gardel, translated by Bruna Dantas Lobato
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Abyss by Pilar Quintana, translated by Lisa Dillman
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On A Woman’s Madness by Astrid Roemer, translated by Lucy Scott
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NONFICTION
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk
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Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice by Cristina Rivera Garza
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Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe
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We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir by Raja Shehadeh
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Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Valiant
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POETRY
How to Communicate by John Lee Clark
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from unincorporated territory [åmot] by Craig Santos Perez
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Tripas by Brandon Som
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suddenly we by Evie Shockley
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From From by Monica Youn
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YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE
Gather Kenneth M. Cadow
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Huda F Cares by Huda Fahmy
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Big by Vashti Harrison
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The Lost Year by Katherine Marsh
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The First Time for Everything by Dan Santat
