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Established in 1950, the National Book Award is an American literary prize administered by the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization. A pantheon of such writers as William Faulkner, Marianne Moore, Ralph Ellison, John Cheever, Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, Robert Lowell, Walker Percy, John Updike, Katherine Anne Porter, Norman Mailer, Lillian Hellman, Elizabeth Bishop, Saul Bellow, Donald Barthelme, Flannery O’Connor, Adrienne Rich, Thomas Pynchon, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Alice Walker, Charles Johnson, E. Annie Proulx, and Colum McCann have all won the Award.
The Longlist for Young People’s Literature will be revealed on newyorker.com on Monday, September 12th at 9 a.m. (EDT), followed by the Longlist for Poetry on Tuesday, September 13th at 9 a.m., the Longlist for Nonfiction on September 14th, and finally, the Longlist for Fiction on September 15th.
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National Book Award Winners
National Book Award Short List:
2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016
National Book Award Long List:
2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
The Longlist for Young People’s Literature will be revealed on newyorker.com on Monday, September 12th at 9 a.m. (EDT), followed by the Longlist for Poetry on Tuesday, September 13th at 9 a.m., the Longlist for Nonfiction on September 14th, and finally, the Longlist for Fiction on September 15th.
Please do not add other books to the list. Feel free to vote for your favorites!
National Book Award Winners
National Book Award Short List:
2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016
National Book Award Long List:
2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
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A book’s total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book.
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News of the World
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Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
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3.87 avg rating — 29,622 ratings
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The Underground Railroad
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Colson Whitehead (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 438,902 ratings
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
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Ibram X. Kendi (Goodreads Author)
4.53 avg rating — 38,135 ratings
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What Belongs to You
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Garth Greenwell (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 15,183 ratings
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Another Brooklyn
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Jacqueline Woodson (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 41,415 ratings
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The Performance of Becoming Human
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3.96 avg rating — 626 ratings
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Imagine Me Gone
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Adam Haslett (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 19,949 ratings
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The Portable Veblen
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Elizabeth Mckenzie (Goodreads Author)
3.46 avg rating — 8,211 ratings
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Miss Jane
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3.94 avg rating — 5,892 ratings
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America's War for the Greater Middle East
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Bestiary: Poems
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Donika Kelly (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 1,925 ratings
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The Throwback Special
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3.55 avg rating — 2,709 ratings
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The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
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4.06 avg rating — 2,091 ratings
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Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
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Heather Ann Thompson (Goodreads Author)
4.45 avg rating — 4,867 ratings
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The Association of Small Bombs
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Karan Mahajan (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 14,557 ratings
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Sweet Lamb of Heaven
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Blackacre: Poems
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3.95 avg rating — 490 ratings
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Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story
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Caren Stelson (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 2,490 ratings
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The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice
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4.26 avg rating — 1,012 ratings
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Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck
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Adam Cohen (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 2,615 ratings
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Collected Poems: 1974–2004
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Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
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4.12 avg rating — 17,711 ratings
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World of Made and Unmade: A Poem
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4.09 avg rating — 136 ratings
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Look: Poems
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4.31 avg rating — 2,684 ratings
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The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition
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4.22 avg rating — 277 ratings
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Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
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Viet Thanh Nguyen (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 1,338 ratings
score: 163,
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When the Moon Was Ours
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Anna-Marie McLemore (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 11,163 ratings
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Raymie Nightingale
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Kate DiCamillo (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 22,435 ratings
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March: Book Three (March, #3)
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4.64 avg rating — 21,532 ratings
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Pax (Pax, #1)
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3.98 avg rating — 63,556 ratings
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When the Sea Turned to Silver
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Grace Lin (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 6,562 ratings
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Burn Baby Burn
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Meg Medina (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 5,172 ratings
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Booked (The Crossover, #2)
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4.17 avg rating — 19,647 ratings
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Ghost (Track, #1)
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The Sun Is Also a Star
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Nicola Yoon (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 355,609 ratings
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Archeophonics (Wesleyan Poetry Series)
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3.88 avg rating — 201 ratings
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The Selected Poems of Donald Hall
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4.31 avg rating — 328 ratings
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The Abridged History of Rainfall (McSweeney's Poetry Series)
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4.03 avg rating — 226 ratings
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Blue Laws: Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1995-2015
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4.21 avg rating — 92 ratings
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