The National Book Awards named their shortlists with the winners to be announced on November 18:
Fiction
Hannah Lillith Assadi, Paradiso 17 (Knopf)
Edwidge Danticat, Dèy (Knopf)
Julián Delgado Lopera, Pretend You’re Dead and I Carry You (Liveright)
Valeria Luiselli, Beginning Middle End (Knopf)
Morgan Thomas, Mad Eden (MCD)
Nonfiction
Colin Asher, The Midnight Special (Norton)
Abdelrahman ElGendy, Huna (Hogarth)
Camonghne Felix, Let the Poets Govern (One World)
Sara Nović, Mother Tongue (Random House)
Joseph Osmundson, Spawning Season (Bloomsbury Publishing)
Translated Literature
Karl Ove Knausgaard, The School of Night
Translated from the Norwegian by Martin Aitken (Penguin Press)
Vicente Luis Mora, Centroeuropa
Translated from the Spanish by Rahul Bery (Bellevue Literary Press)
Intan Paramaditha, Night of a Thousand Hells
Translated from the Indonesian by Stephen Epstein and Tiffany Tsao (Europa Editions)
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, Pure Men
Translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud (Other Press)
Samar Yazbek, Your Presence Is a Danger to Your Life
Translated from the Arabic by Leri Price (Other Press)
Poetry
Victoria Chang, Tree of Knowledge (FSG)
Carolina Ebeid, Hide (Graywolf )
Brenda Hillman, Still House in the Desert: An eco-contemplation (Wesleyan University Press)
Fady Joudah, Exhibit G: Poems, Essays, and Photographs of Gaza (Milkweed Editions)
Susan Stewart, Bramble (University of Chicago Press)
Young People’s Literature
Elana K. Arnold, Holloway (Clarion)
Tae Keller, When Tomorrow Burns (Random House Children’s)
Keala Kendall, That Which Feeds Us: A Hawaiian Gothic (Random House Children’s)
David Levithan and Gabriel Duckels, The Fight of Our Lives: AIDS in America (Knopf Children’s)
Julian Randall, Shook (Holt Children’s)
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