Posted on October 6, 2020 at 9:42 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
The nominees for the 2020 National Book Awards have been narrowed down to five finalists in each of the five categories.
Here are the books still eligible for the top prize, to be revealed November 18.
Fiction
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Leave the World Behind, by Rumaan Alam.
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A Children’s Bible, by Lydia Millet.
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The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, by Deesha Philyaw (debut short-story collection).
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Shuggie Bain, by Douglas Stuart (debut novel).
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Interior Chinatown, by Charles Yu.
Nonfiction
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The Undocumented Americans, by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio.
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The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X, by Les Payne and Tamara Payne.
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Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory, by Claudio Saunt.
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My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, by Jenn Shapland.
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How to Make a Slave and Other Essays, by Jerald Walker.
Young people's literature
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King and the Dragonflies, by Kacen Callender.
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We Are Not Free, by Traci Chee.
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Every Body Looking, by Candice Iloh.
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When Stars are Scattered, by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed.
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The Way Back, by Gavriel Savit.
Poetry
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A Treatise on Stars, by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge.
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Fantasia for the Man in Blue, by Tommye Blount (debut collection).
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DMZ Colony, by Don Mee Choi.
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Borderland Apocrypha, by Anthony Cody (debut collection).
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Postcolonial Love Poem, by Natalie Diaz.
Translated literature
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High as the Waters Rise, written by Anja Kampmann and translated from the German by Anne Posten.
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The Family Clause, written by Jonas Hassen Khemiri and translated from the Swedish by Alice Menzies.
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Tokyo Ueno Station, written by Yu Miri and translated from the Japanese by Morgan Giles.
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The Bitch, written by Pilar Quintana and translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman.
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Minor Detail, written by Adania Shibli and translated from the Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette.
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