The National Book Foundation announced finalists for the National Book Awards, to be given on November 20.
Fiction
’Pemi Aguda, Ghostroots (Norton)
Kaveh Akbar, Martyr! (Knopf)
Percival Everett, James (Doubleday)
Miranda July, All Fours (Riverhead)
Hisham Matar, My Friends (Random House)
Nonfiction
Jason De León, Soldiers and Kings (Viking Books)
Eliza Griswold, Circle of Hope (FSG)
Kate Manne, Unshrinking (Crown)
Salman Rushdie, Knife (Random House)
Deborah Jackson Taffa, Whiskey Tender (Harper)
Poetry
Anne Carson, Wrong Norma (New Directions)
Fady Joudah, […] (Milkweed Editions)
m.s. RedCherries, mother (Penguin Books)
Diane Seuss, Modern Poetry (Graywolf Press)
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, Something About Living (University of Akron Press)
Translated Literature
Bothayna Al-Essa, The Book Censor’s Library
Translated from the Arabic by Sawad Hussain and Ranya Abdelrahman (Restless Books)
Linnea Axelsson, Ædnan
Translated from the Swedish by Saskia Vogel (Knopf)
Fiston Mwanza Mujila, The Villain’s Dance
Translated from the French by Roland Glasser (Deep Vellum)
Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, Taiwan Travelogue
Translated from the Mandarin Chinese by Lin King (Graywolf)
Samar Yazbek, Where the Wind Calls Home
Translated from the Arabic by Leri Price (World Editions)
Young People’s Literature
Violet Duncan, Buffalo Dreamer (Nancy Paulsen Books)
Josh Galarza, The Great Cool Ranch Dorito in the Sky (Holt Children’s)
Erin Entrada Kelly, The First State of Being (Greenwillow)
Shifa Saltagi Safadi, Kareem Between (Putnam Children’s)
Angela Shanté, The Unboxing of a Black Girl (Page Street)
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