Each year, the National Book Award Finalists in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature gather the evening before the National Book Awards Ceremony to read excerpts from their honored works. The 2024 National Book Awards Finalist Reading will be hosted by Brittany Luse, award–winning journalist, cultural critic, and host of It’s Been a Minute from NPR.

The event will be presented in person at NYU Skirball and livestreamed.

In-person tickets are available at nyuskirball.org.

Register for the livestream at nationalbook.org/finalist-reading-watch.

Doors open at 6:30pm, and the program begins at 7:00pm EST.

Presented in partnership with the NYU Creative Writing Program.

Celebrate 75: Register to watch the 75^th anniversary of the National Book Awards on Wednesday, November 20^th at nationalbook.org/watch.