National Book Award Finalist Winners

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Winners

	Too Bright to See by Kyle Lukoff 4.17 avg rating — 2,678 ratings National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People by Kekla Magoon (Goodreads Author) 4.40 avg rating — 373 ratings National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Me by Amber McBride (Goodreads Author) 4.20 avg rating — 2,946 ratings National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Legend of Auntie Po by Shing Yin Khor 4.12 avg rating — 1,754 ratings National Book Award Finalist for Young People's Literature (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Planet of Clay by Samar Yazbek 3.84 avg rating — 128 ratings National Book Award Finalist for Translated Literature (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut 4.16 avg rating — 14,192 ratings National Book Award Finalist for Translated Literature (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Twilight Zone by Nona Fernández 4.24 avg rating — 1,796 ratings National Book Award Finalist for Translated Literature (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Peach Blossom Paradise by Ge Fei 4.06 avg rating — 219 ratings National Book Award Finalist for Translated Literature (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sunflower Cast a Spell To Save Us From The Void by Jackie Wang 3.84 avg rating — 292 ratings National Book Award Finalist for Poetry (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure by Hoa Nguyen 3.96 avg rating — 167 ratings National Book Award Finalist for Poetry (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sho by Douglas Kearney 4.11 avg rating — 82 ratings National Book Award Finalist for Poetry (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Floaters: Poems by Martín Espada 4.50 avg rating — 280 ratings National Book Award Finalist for Poetry (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Noise Against the Cane by Desiree C. Bailey 4.48 avg rating — 109 ratings National Book Award Finalist for Poetry (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America by Nicole Eustace 3.57 avg rating — 270 ratings National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tastes Like War by Grace M. Cho (Goodreads Author) 4.28 avg rating — 1,994 ratings National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains by Lucas Bessire 3.80 avg rating — 248 ratings National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib 4.64 avg rating — 4,553 ratings National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Zorrie by Laird Hunt (Goodreads Author) 3.91 avg rating — 4,259 ratings National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr (Goodreads Author) 4.28 avg rating — 91,321 ratings National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Matrix by Lauren Groff (Goodreads Author) 3.75 avg rating — 31,642 ratings National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr. (Goodreads Author) 3.94 avg rating — 16,426 ratings National Book Award Finalist for Fiction (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Way Back by Gavriel Savit (Goodreads Author) 3.69 avg rating — 947 ratings National Book Award Finalist for Young People’s Literature (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson 4.66 avg rating — 17,633 ratings National Book Award Finalist for Young People’s Literature (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Every Body Looking by Candice Iloh 3.78 avg rating — 2,888 ratings National Book Award Finalist for Young People’s Literature (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Are Not Free by Traci Chee (Goodreads Author) 4.36 avg rating — 6,334 ratings National Book Award Finalist for Young People’s Literature (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Minor Detail by Adania Shibli 3.98 avg rating — 3,079 ratings National Book Award Finalist for Translated Literature (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La perra by Pilar Quintana 3.89 avg rating — 5,532 ratings National Book Award Finalist for Translated Literature (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pappaklausulen by Jonas Hassen Khemiri 3.86 avg rating — 2,772 ratings National Book Award Finalist for Translated Literature (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	High as the Waters Rise by Anja Kampmann 3.18 avg rating — 174 ratings National Book Award Finalist for Translated Literature (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Díaz 4.38 avg rating — 4,228 ratings National Book Award Finalist for Poetry (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars