2019 National Book Awards Finalists Announced

2019 National Book Awards Finalists Announced The National Book Foundation announced the 2019 National Book Awards finalists! Its a fascinating list, with a range of debut authors and notable names like Marlon James, Laila Lalami, and László Krasznahorkai. None of the 25 finalists have previously won a National Book Award, and the majority of the finalists are first time nominees! The winners in each of the five categoriesâ€"Young People’s Literature, Translated Literature, Poetry, Nonfiction, and Fictionâ€"will be announced November 20, 2019, at the 70th National Book Awards Ceremony. Edmund White will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award. Acclaimed actor, producer, and television veteran LeVar Burton will host the ceremony. View this post on Instagram ???? Announcing the 2019 National Book Award Finalists! ???? #NBAwards A post shared by National Book Foundation (@nationalbookfoundation) on Oct 8, 2019 at 7:31am PDT Young Peoples Literature Pet by Akwaeke Emezi Make Me a World / Penguin Random House Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks  by Jason Reynolds Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books / Simon Schuster Patron Saints of Nothing  by Randy Ribay Kokila / Penguin Random House Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All  by Laura Ruby Balzer + Bray / HarperCollins Publishers 1919 The Year That Changed America by Martin W. Sandler Bloomsbury Children’s Books / Bloomsbury Publishing Translated Literature Death Is Hard Work  by Khaled Khalifa Translated from the Arabic by  Leri Price Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming  by László Krasznahorkai Translated from the Hungarian by  Ottilie Mulzet New Directions The Barefoot Woman  by Scholastique Mukasonga Translated from the French by  Jordan Stump Archipelago Books The Memory Police  by Yoko Ogawa Translated from the Japanese by  Stephen Snyder Pantheon Books / Penguin Random House Crossing  by Pajtim Statovci Translated from the Finnish by  David Hackston Pantheon Books / Penguin Random House Poetry The Tradition  by Jericho Brown Copper Canyon Press I: New and Selected Poems by Toi Derricotte University of Pittsburgh Press Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky Graywolf Press Be Recorder by Carmen Giménez Smith Graywolf Press Sight Lines  by Arthur Sze Copper Canyon Press Nonfiction The Yellow House  by Sarah M. Broom Grove Press / Grove Atlantic Thick: And Other Essays  by Tressie McMillan Cottom The New Press What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance by Carolyn Forché Penguin Press / Penguin Random House The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present  by David Treuer Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House Solitary  by Albert Woodfox  with  Leslie George Grove Press / Grove Atlantic Fiction Trust Exercise  by Susan Choi Henry Holt and Company / Macmillan Publishers Sabrina Corina: Stories  by Kali Fajardo-Anstine One World / Penguin Random House Black Leopard, Red Wolf  by Marlon James Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House The Other Americans by Laila Lalami Pantheon Books / Penguin Random House Disappearing Earth  by Julia Phillips Alfred A. Knopf / Penguin Random House Curious about the other nominated titles? Looking for more great recommendations? Check out the 2019 National Book Awards Longlists. Sign up to Today In Books to receive  daily news and miscellany from the world of books. Thank you for signing up! Keep an eye on your inbox.