The National Book Awards announced its 2019 shortlists, with the winners to be named on November 20. The fiction list includes titles from Pulitzer finalists Susan Choi and Laila Lalami and Booker winner Marlon James, while the Young People’s Literature list includes previous finalists Jason Reynolds and Laura Ruby. Four out of five fiction titles are published by Penguin Random House. The complete lists: Fiction Susan Choi, Trust Exercise (Holt) Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina (One World) Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf (Riverhead) Laila Lalami, The Other Americans (Pantheon) Julia Phillips, Disappearing Earth (Knopf) Nonfiction Sarah M. Broom, The […]