National Book Award Collection (2017)

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FICTION

Winner
TBA 2017/11/15

Finalists
TBA 2017/10/4

Longlist
• Elliot Ackerman, Dark at the Crossing (Knopf / Penguin Random House)
• Daniel Alarcón, The King Is Always Above the People: Stories (Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House)
• Charmaine Craig, Miss Burma (Grove Press / Grove Atlantic)
• Jennifer Egan, Manhattan Beach (Scribner / Simon & Schuster)
• Lisa Ko, The Leavers (Algonquin Books / Workman Publishing)
• Min Jin Lee, Pachinko (Grand Central Publishing / Hachette Book Group)
• Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories (Graywolf Press)
• Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, A Kind of Freedom Counterpoint Press)
• Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing (Scribner / Simon & Schuster)
• Carol Zoref, Barren Island (New Issues Poetry & Prose)

NONFICTION

Winner
TBA 2017/11/15

Finalists
TBA 2017/10/4

Longlist
• Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge (Atria / 37 INK / Simon & Schuster)
• Frances FitzGerald, The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America (Simon & Schuster)
• James Forman, Jr., Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America (Farrar, Straus & Giroux / Macmillan Publishers)
• Masha Gessen, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House)
• David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Doubleday / Penguin Random House)
• Naomi Klein, No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need (Haymarket Books)
• Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America (Viking / Penguin Random House)
• Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Liveright / W. W. Norton & Company)
• Timothy B. Tyson, The Blood of Emmett Till (Simon & Schuster)
• Kevin Young, Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News (Graywolf Press)

POETRY

Winner
TBA 2017/11/15

Finalists
TBA 2017/10/4

Longlist
• Frank Bidart, Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers)
• Chen Chen, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions, Ltd.)
• Leslie Harrison, The Book of Endings (University of Akron Press)
• Marie Howe, Magdalene: Poems (W. W. Norton & Company)
• Laura Kasischke, Where Now: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press)
• Layli Long Soldier, WHEREAS (Graywolf Press)
• Shane McCrae, In the Language of My Captor (Wesleyan University Press)
• Sherod Santos, Square Inch Hours (W. W. Norton & Company)
• Danez Smith, Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems (Graywolf Press)
• Mai Der Vang, Afterland (Graywolf Press)

YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE

Winner
TBA 2017/11/15

Finalists
TBA 2017/10/4

Longlist
• Elana K. Arnold, What Girls Are Made Of (Lerner Publishing Group)
• Robin Benway, Far from the Tree (HarperCollins)
• Samantha Mabry, All the Wind in the World (Algonquin Young Readers)
• Mitali Perkins, You Bring the Distant Near (Macmillan)
• Jason Reynolds, Long Way Down (Simon & Schuster)
• Erika L. Sánchez, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (Penguin Random House)
• Laurel Snyder, Orphan Island (HarperCollins)
• Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give (HarperCollins)
• Rita Williams-Garcia, Clayton Byrd Goes Underground (HarperCollins)
• Ibi Zoboi, American Street (HarperCollins)

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