2018

winners

Discover honored books by category:

WINNER

The Poet X

Elizabeth Acevedo

FINALISTS

The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge

M. T. Anderson,
Eugene Yelchin

The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle

Leslie Connor

The Journey of Little Charlie

Christopher Paul Curtis

Hey, Kiddo

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

LONGLIST

We’ll Fly Away

Bryan Bliss

Greenwillow Books / HarperCollins Publishers More about this book >

A Very Large Expanse of Sea

Tahereh Mafi

HarperTeen / HarperCollins Publishers More about this book >

Blood Water Paint

Joy McCullough

Dutton Children’s Books / Penguin Random House More about this book >

Boots on the Ground: America’s War in Vietnam

Elizabeth Partridge

Viking Children’s Books / Penguin Random House More about this book >

What the Night Sings

Vesper Stamper

Knopf Books for Young Readers / Penguin Random House 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