2018

winners

Discover honored books by category:

WINNER

The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke

Jeffrey C. Stewart

FINALISTS

The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation

Colin G. Calloway

American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic

Victoria Johnson

Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth

Sarah Smarsh

We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights

Adam Winkler

LONGLIST

One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy

Carol Anderson

Bloomsbury Publishing More about this book >

Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Steve Coll

Penguin Press / Penguin Random House More about this book >

Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War

Marwan Hisham,
Molly Crabapple

One World / Penguin Random House More about this book >

The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life

David Quammen

Simon & Schuster More about this book >

Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)

Rebecca Solnit

Haymarket Books More about this book >

Judges

Media

Watch the 2018 National Book Awards Ceremony

Author of The Friend Sigrid Nunez accepts the 2018 National Book Award for Fiction

Author of The New Negro Jeffrey C. Stewart accepts the 2018 National Book Award for Nonfiction

Author of Indecency Justin Phillip Reed accepts the 2018 National Book Award for Poetry

Monique Truong (on behalf of Yoko Tawada) and Margaret Mitsutani accept the 2018 National Book Award for Translated Literature

Author of The Poet X, Elizabeth Acevedo accepts the 2018 National Book Award for Young People's Literature

The Finalists Announced for the 2018 National Book Awards