Winners of the 2014 National Book Award in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People's Literature were announced at the 65th National Book Awards Benefit Dinner and Ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City on Wednesday, November 19, 2014.

Established in 1950, the National Book Award is an American literary prize given to writers by writers and administered by the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization. More information about the National Book Awards can be found here.
 

2014 Winners

Fiction
REDEPLOYMENT by Phil Klay (The Penguin Press/Penguin Group)

Nonfiction
AGE OF AMBITION: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China, by Evan Osnos (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Poetry
FAITHFUL AND VIRTUOUS NIGHT by Louise Glück (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Young People’s Literature
BROWN GIRL DREAMING by Jacqueline Woodson (Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin Group)
 

2014 Finalists

Fiction

• AN UNECESSARY WOMAN by Rabih Alameddine (Grove Press / Grove/Atlantic)
• ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE by Anthony Doerr (Scribner/Simon & Schuster)
• REDEPLOYMENT by Phil Klay (The Penguin Press/Penguin Group)
• STATION ELEVEN by Emily St. John Mandel (Alfred A. Knopf/Random House)
• LILA by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Nonfiction

• CAN'T WE TALK ABOUT SOMETHING MORE PLEASANT? by Roz Chast (Bloomsbury)
• NO GOOD MEN AMONG THE LIVING: America, the Taliban, and the War Through Afghan Eyes, by Anand Gopal (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co.)
• TENNESSEE WILLIAMS: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh, by John Lahr (W.W. Norton & Co.)
• AGE OF AMBITION: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China, by Evan Osnos (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• THE MEANING OF HUMAN EXISTENCE by Edward O. Wilson (Liveright Publishing Corp./W.W. Norton & Co.)

Poetry

• FAITHFUL AND VIRTUOUS NIGHT by Louise Glück (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• SECOND CHILDHOOD by  Fanny Howe (Graywolf Press)  
• THIS BLUE by Maureen N. McLane (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)   
• THE FEEL TRIO by Fred Moten (Letter Machine Editions)       
• CITIZEN: An American Lyric, by Claudia Rankine (Graywolf Press)

Young People’s Literature

• THREATENED by Eliot Schrefer (Scholastic Press/Scholastic)
• THE PORT CHICAGO 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin (Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan Publishers)
• NOGGIN by John Corey Whaley (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster)
• REVOLUTION: The Sixties Trilogy, Book Two by Deborah Wiles (Scholastic Press/Scholastic)
• BROWN GIRL DREAMING by Jacqueline Woodson (Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin Group)

2014 Longlist

Fiction

• AN UNECESSARY WOMAN by Rabih Alameddine (Grove Press / Grove/Atlantic)
• THE UNAMERICANS by Molly Antopol (W. W. Norton & Company)
• WOLF IN WHITE VAN by John Darnielle (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE by Anthony Doerr (Scribner/Simon & Schuster)
• REDEPLOYMENT by Phil Klay (The Penguin Press/Penguin Group)
• STATION ELEVEN by Emily St. John Mandel (Alfred A. Knopf/Random House)
• THUNDERSTRUCK & OTHER STORIES by Elizabeth McCracken (The Dial Press/Random House)
• ORFEO by Richard Powers (W.W. Norton & Company)
• LILA by Marilynne Robinson (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• SOME LUCK by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf/Random House)

Nonfiction

• CAN'T WE TALK ABOUT SOMETHING MORE PLEASANT? by Roz Chast (Bloomsbury)
• THE HEATHEN SCHOOL: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic, by John Demos (Alfred A. Knopf/Random House)
• NO GOOD MEN AMONG THE LIVING: America, the Taliban, and the War Through Afghan Eyes, by Anand Gopal (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co.)
• THE MANTLE OF COMMAND: FDR at War, 1941-1942 by Nigel Hamilton (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• THE INNOVATORS: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution, by Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster)
• TENNESSEE WILLIAMS: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh, by John Lahr (W.W. Norton & Co.)
• AGE OF AMBITION: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China, by Evan Osnos (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• WHEN PARIS WENT DARK: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944 by Ronald C. Rosbottom (Little, Brown and Co./Hachette Book Group)
• NATURE'S GOD: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic, by Matthew Stewart (W.W. Norton & Co.)
• THE MEANING OF HUMAN EXISTENCE by Edward O. Wilson (Liveright Publishing Corp./W.W. Norton & Co.)

Poetry

• ROGET'S ILLUSION by Linda Bierds (G. P. Putnam's Sons/Penguin Group)
• A SEVERAL WORLD by Brian Blanchfield (Nightboat Books)   
• FAITHFUL AND VIRTUOUS NIGHT by Louise Glück (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)   
• GABRIEL: A Poem, by Edward Hirsch (Alfred A. Knopf/Random House)
• SECOND CHILDHOOD by  Fanny Howe (Graywolf Press)  
• THIS BLUE by Maureen N. McLane (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)   
• THE FEEL TRIO by Fred Moten (Letter Machine Editions)       
• CITIZEN: An American Lyric, by Claudia Rankine (Graywolf Press)   
• THE ROAD TO EMMAUS by Spencer Reece (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)   
• COLLECTED POEMS by Mark Strand (Alfred A. Knopf/Random House)

Young People’s Literature

• THE IMPOSSIBLE KNIFE OF MEMORY by Laurie Halse Anderson (Viking/Penguin Group)
• GIRLS LIKE US by Gail Giles (Candlewick Press)
• SKINK — NO SURRENDER by Carl Hiaasen (Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers/Random House)
• GREENGLASS HOUSE by Kate Milford (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• THREATENED by Eliot Schrefer (Scholastic Press/Scholastic)
• THE PORT CHICAGO 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights by Steve Sheinkin (Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan Publishers)
• 100 SIDEWAYS MILES by Andrew Smith (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster)
• NOGGIN by John Corey Whaley (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster)
• REVOLUTION: The Sixties Trilogy, Book Two by Deborah Wiles (Scholastic Press/Scholastic)
• BROWN GIRL DREAMING by Jacqueline Woodson (Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin Group)