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Posted on October 3, 2023 at 2:51 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Introducing the finalists for the 2023 National Book Awards!
These books are each still under consideration for their genre's grand prize — praise and $10,000, to be handed out at a November 15 ceremony that includes special guests Oprah Winfrey, Rita Dove, and Paul Yamazaki.
All finalists will receive $1,000.
(Miss the longlists? Here there are by category: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and young people's literature.)
Fiction
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Chain Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
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Temple Folk by Aaliyah Bilal
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This Other Eden by Paul Harding
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The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen
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Blackouts by Justin Torres
Nonfiction
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The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk
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Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice by Cristina Rivera Garza
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Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe
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We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir by Raja Shehadeh
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Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant
Poetry
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How to Communicate by John Lee Clark
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from unincorporated territory [åmot] by Craig Santos Perez
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suddenly we by Evie Shockley
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Tripas by Brandon Som
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From From by Monica Youn
Translated literature
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Cursed Bunny, written by Bora Chung and translated from Korean by Anton Hur
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Beyond the Door of No Return, written by David Diop and translated from French by Sam Taylor
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The Words That Remain, written by Stênio Gardel and translated from Portuguese by Bruna Dantas Lobato
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Abyss, written by Pilar Quintana and translated from Spanish by Lisa Dillman
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On a Woman’s Madness, written by Astrid Roemer and translated from Dutch by Lucy Scott
Young people's literature
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Gather by Kenneth M. Cadow
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Huda F Cares? by Huda Fahmy
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Big by Vashti Harrison
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The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine by Katherine Marsh
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Hidden Systems: Water, Electricity, the Internet, and the Secrets Behind the Systems We Use Every Day by Dan Nott
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A First Time for Everything by Dan Santat
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