75 annual National book Awards

Finalists announced on Tuesday, October 1.

FictionFiction

Ghostroots ‘Pemi Aguda Norton / W. W. Norton & Company

Martyr! Kaveh Akbar Knopf / Penguin Random House

The Most Jessica Anthony Little, Brown and Company / Hachette Book Group

Catalina Karla Cornejo Villavicencio One World / Penguin Random House

James Percival Everett Doubleday / Penguin Random House

All Fours Miranda July Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House

Creation Lake Rachel Kushner Scribner / Simon & Schuster

My Friends Hisham Matar Random House / Penguin Random House

Yr Dead Sam Sax McSweeney's

Rejection Tony Tulathimutte William Morrow / HarperCollins Publishers

NonfictionNonfiction

There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension Hanif Abdurraqib Random House / Penguin Random House

Our Moon: How Earth’s Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are Rebecca Boyle Random House / Penguin Random House

Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling Jason De León Viking Books / Penguin Random House

Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church Eliza Griswold Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers

Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia Kate Manne Crown / Penguin Random House

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder Salman Rushdie Random House / Penguin Random House

The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives Ernest Scheyder Atria/One Signal Publishers / Simon & Schuster

A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America Richard Slotkin Belknap Press / Harvard University Press

Whiskey Tender Deborah Jackson Taffa Harper / HarperCollins Publishers

Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders Vanessa Angélica Villarreal Tiny Reparations Books / Penguin Random House

PoetryPoetry

Wrong Norma Anne Carson New Directions Publishing

[...] Fady Joudah Milkweed Editions

Life on Earth Dorianne Laux Norton / W. W. Norton & Company

Spectral Evidence Gregory Pardlo Knopf / Penguin Random House

Silver Rowan Ricardo Phillips Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers

The Book of Wounded Sparrows Octavio Quintanilla Texas Review Press

mother m.s. RedCherries Penguin Books / Penguin Random House

Modern Poetry Diane Seuss Graywolf Press

Something About Living Lena Khalaf Tuffaha University of Akron Press

Liontaming in America Elizabeth Willis New Directions Publishing

Translated LiteratureTranslated Literature

The Tale of a Wall: Reflections on the Meaning of Hope and Freedom Nasser Abu Srour
Translated from the Arabic by Luke Leafgren Other Press

The Book Censor’s Library Bothayna Al-Essa
Translated from the Arabic by Ranya Abdelrahman and Sawad Hussain Restless Books

Ædnan Linnea Axelsson
Translated from the Swedish by Saskia Vogel Knopf / Penguin Random House

On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) Solvej Balle
Translated from the Danish by Barbara J. Haveland New Directions Publishing

Woodworm Layla Martínez
Translated from Spanish by Sophie Hughes and Annie McDermott Two Lines Press

The Villain's Dance Fiston Mwanza Mujila
Translated from the French by Roland Glasser Deep Vellum / Deep Vellum Publishing

Pink Slime Fernanda Trías
Translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary Scribner / Simon & Schuster

The Abyss Fernando Vallejo
Translated from the Spanish by Yvette Siegert New Directions Publishing

Taiwan Travelogue Yáng Shuāng-zǐ
Translated from the Mandarin Chinese by Lin King Graywolf Press

book cover for Where the Wind Calls Home

Where the Wind Calls Home Samar Yazbek
Translated from the Arabic by Leri Price World Editions

Young People's LiteratureYoung People's Literature

Ariel Crashes a Train, by Olivia A. Cole book jacket

Ariel Crashes a Train Olivia A. Cole Labyrinth Road / Penguin Random House

Buffalo Dreamer Violet Duncan Nancy Paulsen Books / Penguin Random House

Wild Dreamers Margarita Engle Atheneum Books for Young Readers / Simon & Schuster

The Great Cool Ranch Dorito in the Sky, by Josh Galarza

The Great Cool Ranch Dorito in the Sky Josh Galarza Henry Holt and Company (BYR) / Macmillan Publishers

The First State of Being, by Erin Entrada Kelly

The First State of Being Erin Entrada Kelly Greenwillow Books / HarperCollins Publishers

Everything We Never Had Randy Ribay Kokila / Penguin Random House

Kareem Between Shifa Saltagi Safadi G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers / Penguin Random House

The Unboxing of a Black Girl, by Angela Shante

The Unboxing of a Black Girl Angela Shanté Page Street Publishing

Free Period Ali Terese Scholastic Press / Scholastic Inc.

Mid-Air Alicia D. Williams Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books / Simon & Schuster

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