National Book Award Winners
Established in 1950, the National Book Award is an American literary prize administered by the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization. There are four winners from categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people’s literature. Only one winner is chosen from five finalists in each category. The winners and finalists are listed below. Click on the book titles to reserve a copy to read from the Library's collection.
Fiction -- Winner: Redeployment by Phil Klay
Finalists:
- An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
- Lila by Marilynne Robinson
Nonfiction -- Winner: Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China by Evan Osnos
Finalists:
- Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast
- No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes by Anand Gopal
- Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh by John Lahr
- The Meaning of Human Existence by Edward O. Wilson
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- Second Childhood by Fanny Howe
- This Blue by Maureen N. McLane
- Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
- The Feel Trio by Fred Moten
- Threatened by Eliot Schrefer
- The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny and the Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin
- Noggin by John Corey Whaley
- Revolution: The Sixties Trilogy, Book Two by Deborah Wiles
To learn more about how the National Book Award process works, visit the National Book Foundation's website.
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