These Are The Finalists For The 2018 National Book Awards

The National Book Foundation has announced its 25 finalists in five categories — fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and young people's literature.

FICTION

Jamel Brinkley, A Lucky Man

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Lauren Groff, Florida

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Brandon Hobson, Where the Dead Sit Talking

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Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

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Sigrid Nunez, The Friend

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NONFICTION

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Get it from Amazon for $24.17, Barnes and Noble for $26.96, IndieBound, or find a copy at your local library.

Get it from Amazon for $17.10, Barnes and Noble for $20.80, IndieBound, or find a copy at your local library.

Jeffrey C. Stewart, The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke

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POETRY

Rae Armantrout, Wobble

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Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin

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Diana Khoi Nguyen, Ghost Of

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Justin Phillip Reed, Indecency

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Jenny Xie, Eye Level

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TRANSLATED LITERATURE

Négar Djavadi, Disoriental

Translated by Tina Kover (from the French)

Get it from Amazon for $12.23, Barnes and Noble for $16.20, IndieBound, or find a copy at your local library.

Hanne Ørstavik, Love

Translated by Martin Aitken (from the Norwegian)

Get it from Amazon for $11.55, Barnes and Noble for $15.30, IndieBound, or find a copy at your local library.

Domenico Starnone, Trick

Translated by Jhumpa Lahiri (from the Italian)

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Yoko Tawada, The Emissary

Translated by Margaret Mitsutani (from the Japanese)

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Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

Translated by Jennifer Croft (from the Polish)

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Young People’s Literature

Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

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M. T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin, The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge

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Leslie Connor, The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle

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Christopher Paul Curtis, The Journey of Little Charlie

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Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Hey, Kiddo

Get it from Amazon for $10.88, Barnes and Noble for $13.49, IndieBound, or find a copy at your local library.

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