2013

winners

Discover honored books by category:

WINNER

The Good Lord Bird

James McBride

Riverhead Books/Penguin Group USA More about this book >

FINALISTS

The Flamethrowers

Rachel Kushner

Scribner/Simon & Schuster More about this book >

The Lowland

Jhumpa Lahiri

Alfred A. Knopf/Random House More about this book >

Bleeding Edge

Thomas Pynchon

The Penguin Press/Penguin Group USA More about this book >

Tenth of December

George Saunders

Random House More about this book >

LONGLIST

Pacific

Tom Drury

Grove Press More about this book >

The End of the Point

Elizabeth Graver

Harper/HarperCollinsPublishers More about this book >

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

Anthony Marra

Hogarth/Random House More about this book >

Someone

Alice McDermott

Farrar, Straus and Giroux More about this book >

Fools

Joan Silber

W.W. Norton & Company More about this book >

Judges

Gish Jen

Charles McGrath

Chair

Rick Simonson

Media

James McBride Accepts the 2013 National Book Award in Fiction for The Good Lord Bird

George Packer Accepts the 2013 National Book Award in Nonfiction

Mary Szybist Accepts the 2013 National Book Award in Poetry

Cynthia Kadohata Accepts the 2013 National Book Award in Young People’s Literature