2016

winners

Discover honored books by category:

WINNER

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

Ibram X. Kendi

FINALISTS

Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right

Arlie Russell Hochschild

Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War

Viet Thanh Nguyen

The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America

Andrés Reséndez

Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy

Heather Ann Thompson

LONGLIST

America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History

Andrew J. Bacevich

Random House/Penguin Random House More about this book >

The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice

Patricia Bell-Scott

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

Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck

Adam Cohen

Penguin Press/Penguin Random House More about this book >

Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

Cathy O’Neil

Crown Publishing Group/Penguin Random House More about this book >

The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition

Manisha Sinha

Yale University Press More about this book >

Judges

Cynthia Barnett

Masha Gessen

Greg Grandin

Ronald C. Rosbottom

Media

2016 National Book Awards - Cave Canem (Full)

2016 National Book Awards - Colson Whitehead (Full)

2016 National Book Awards - Daniel Borzutzky (Full)

2016 National Book Awards - David Steinberger (Full)

2016 National Book Awards - Dr William P Kelly (Full)

2016 National Book Awards - Ibram X. Kendi (Full)

2016 National Book Awards - James English (Full)

2016 National Book Awards - Joy Harjo (Full)

2016 National Book Awards - Katherine Paterson (Full)

2016 National Book Awards - Larry Wilmore (Full)

2016 National Book Awards - Lisa Lucas (Full)

2016 National Book Awards - Masha Gessen (Full)

2016 National Book Awards - Robert A Caro (Full)

2016 National Book Awards - Terrance Hayes Presents Cave Canem with Literarian Award

2016 National Book Awards -Lewis, Aydin & Powell Win Young People's Lit. Award (Full)

2016 National Book Awards Ceremony

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