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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 September 16th at 10:30 am, followed by Translated Literature on September 17, Poetry on September 18th, Nonfiction on September 19, and Fiction on September 20.
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, 2018
The Longlist for Young People’s Literature will be revealed on September 16th at 10:30 am, followed by Translated Literature on September 17, Poetry on September 18th, Nonfiction on September 19, and Fiction on September 20.
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, 2018
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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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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
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4.47 avg rating — 159,490 ratings
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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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Thick: And Other Essays
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Tressie McMillan Cottom (Goodreads Author)
4.43 avg rating — 18,401 ratings
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Black Light
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Kimberly King Parsons (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 1,696 ratings
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Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest (American Music Series)
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4.46 avg rating — 6,519 ratings
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What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
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Carolyn Forché (Goodreads Author)
4.42 avg rating — 3,321 ratings
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
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David Treuer (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 6,563 ratings
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Burn the Place: A Memoir
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3.64 avg rating — 3,409 ratings
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Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
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4.27 avg rating — 1,279 ratings
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Trust Exercise
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Susan Choi (Goodreads Author)
3.12 avg rating — 39,306 ratings
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Fleishman Is in Trouble
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Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1)
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3.45 avg rating — 30,598 ratings
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The Need
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Helen Phillips (Goodreads Author)
3.15 avg rating — 17,274 ratings
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Sabrina & Corina
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Kali Fajardo-Anstine (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 14,963 ratings
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Disappearing Earth
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Julia Phillips (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 56,844 ratings
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The Yellow House
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3.89 avg rating — 25,241 ratings
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The Nickel Boys
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Colson Whitehead (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 302,227 ratings
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The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
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Greg Grandin (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 3,137 ratings
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Dunce
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3.93 avg rating — 680 ratings
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Build Yourself a Boat
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4.06 avg rating — 1,159 ratings
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Deaf Republic
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Space Invaders
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3.95 avg rating — 5,377 ratings
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The Memory Police
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3.70 avg rating — 133,227 ratings
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
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3.94 avg rating — 147,556 ratings
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Death Is Hard Work
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3.70 avg rating — 4,720 ratings
score: 160,
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Shout
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Laurie Halse Anderson (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 21,961 ratings
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The Barefoot Woman
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4.09 avg rating — 1,827 ratings
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Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All
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3.85 avg rating — 5,822 ratings
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Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks
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3.93 avg rating — 19,239 ratings
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Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement
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4.42 avg rating — 4,068 ratings
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The Other Americans
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Laila Lalami (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 19,262 ratings
score: 96,
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Variations on Dawn and Dusk
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3.72 avg rating — 83 ratings
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The Tradition
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4.23 avg rating — 10,158 ratings
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I: New and Selected Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)
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4.25 avg rating — 104 ratings
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A Sand Book
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Ariana Reines (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 532 ratings
score: 76,
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Be Recorder: Poems
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3.96 avg rating — 505 ratings
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Sight Lines
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3.86 avg rating — 576 ratings
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Doomstead Days
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Brian Teare (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 155 ratings
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When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back
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4.27 avg rating — 5,859 ratings
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The Collector of Leftover Souls: Field Notes on Brazil's Everyday Insurrections
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4.29 avg rating — 927 ratings
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Will and Testament
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3.91 avg rating — 20,492 ratings
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Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming
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4.18 avg rating — 1,362 ratings
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Crossing
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3.87 avg rating — 7,195 ratings
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The Undefeated
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4.63 avg rating — 7,255 ratings
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Pet (Pet, #1)
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Akwaeke Emezi (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 33,964 ratings
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A Place to Belong
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4.05 avg rating — 1,572 ratings
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Patron Saints of Nothing
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4.21 avg rating — 19,833 ratings
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1919 The Year That Changed America
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3.88 avg rating — 481 ratings
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Out of Salem
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Hal Schrieve (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 692 ratings
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Kiss Number 8
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Colleen A.F. Venable (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 6,526 ratings
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