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Posted on October 10, 2018 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
The National Book Foundation has announced the finalists for its annual awards, which will be handed out November 14.
The following twenty-five contenders have emerged from the initial 1,637 submissions:
Fiction
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A Lucky Man, by Jamel Brinkley.
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Florida, by Lauren Groff.
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Where the Dead Sit Talking, by Brandon Hobson.
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The Great Believers, by Rebecca Makkai.
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The Friend, by Sigrid Nunez.
Poetry
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Wobble, by Rae Armantrout.
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American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, by Terrance Hayes.
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Ghost Of, by Diana Khoi Nguyen.
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Indecency, by Justin Phillip Reed.
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Eye Level, by Jenny Xie.
Nonfiction
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The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation, by Colin G. Calloway.
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American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic, by Victoria Johnson.
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Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth, by Sarah Smarsh.
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The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke, by Jeffrey C. Stewart.
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We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights, by Adam Winkler.
Young people’s literature
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The Poet X, by Elizabeth Acevedo.
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The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge, by M. T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin.
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The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle, by Leslie Connor.
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The Journey of Little Charlie, by Christopher Paul Curtis.
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Hey, Kiddo, by Jarrett J. Krosoczka.
Translated literature
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Disoriental, written by Négar Djavadi and translated by Tina Kover.
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Love, written by Hanne Ørstavik and translated by Martin Aitken.
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Trick, written by Domenico Starnone and translated by Jhumpa Lahiri.
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The Emissary, written by Yoko Tawada and translated by Margaret Mitsutani.
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Flights, written by Olga Tokarczuk and translated by Jennifer Croft.
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