Posted on October 8, 2019 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
The National Book Foundation has revealed its shortlists for this year’s National Book Awards.
Of the twenty-five finalists — five each in five categories — there are no previous winners, according to NPR.
Here are the authors and books competing for the ultimate honor, which will be announced November 20.
Fiction
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Trust Exercise, by Susan Choi.
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Sabrina & Corina: Stories, by Kali Fajardo-Anstine.
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Black Leopard, Red Wolf, by Marlon James.
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The Other Americans, by Laila Lalami.
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Disappearing Earth, by Julia Phillips.
Nonfiction
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The Yellow House, by Sarah M. Broom.
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What You Have Heard is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance, by Carolyn Forché.
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Thick: And Other Essays, by Tressie McMillan Cottom.
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present, by David Treuer.
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Solitary, by Albert Woodfox and Leslie George.
Poetry
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The Tradition, by Jericho Brown.
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“I”: New and Selected Poems, by Toi Derricotte.
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Be Recorder, by Carmen Giménez Smith.
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Deaf Republic, by Ilya Kaminsky.
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Sight Lines, by Arthur Sze.
Translated literature
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Death Is Hard Work, written by Khaled Khalifa and translated by Leri Price.
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Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming, written by László Krasznahorkai and translated by Ottilie Mulzet.
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The Barefoot Woman, written by Scholastique Mukasonga and translated by Jordan Stump.
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The Memory Police, written by Yoko Ogawa and translated by Stephen Snyder.
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Crossing, written by Pajtim Statovci and translated by David Hackston.
Young people's literature
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Pet, by Akwaeke Emezi.
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Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks, by Jason Reynolds.
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Patron Saints of Nothing, by Randy Ribay.
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Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All, by Laura Ruby.
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1919: The Year That Changed America, by Martin W. Sandler.
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