2017

winners

Discover honored books by category:

WINNER

The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

Masha Gessen

Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House More about this book >

FINALISTS

Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge

Erica Armstrong Dunbar

Atria / 37 INK / Simon & Schuster More about this book >

The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America

Frances FitzGerald

Simon & Schuster More about this book >

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

David Grann

Doubleday / Penguin Random House More about this book >

Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America

Nancy MacLean

Viking / Penguin Random House More about this book >

LONGLIST

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

James Forman, Jr.

Farrar, Straus & Giroux / Macmillan Publishers More about this book >

No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need

Naomi Klein

Haymarket Books More about this book >

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Richard Rothstein

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

The Blood of Emmett Till

Timothy B. Tyson

Simon & Schuster More about this book >

Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News

Kevin Young

Graywolf Press More about this book >

Judges

Ruth Franklin

Media

Jesmyn Ward accepts the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction (full speech)

Masha Gessen accepts the 2017 National Book Award for Nonfiction (full speech)

Frank Bidart accepts the 2017 National Book Award for Poetry (full speech)

Robin Benway accepts the 2017 National Book Award for Young People's Literature (full speech)