Winners of the 2016 National Book Award in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry and Young People's Literature were announced at the 67th National Book Awards Benefit Dinner and Ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City on November 16, 2016.

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.
 

2016 Winners

Fiction
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday)

Nonfiction
STAMPED FROM THE BEGINNING: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi (Nation Books)

Poetry
THE PERFORMANCE OF BECOMING HUMAN by Daniel Borzutzky (Brooklyn Arts Press)

Young People’s Literature
MARCH: Book Three, written by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, illustrated by Nate Powell (Top Shelf)

2016 Shortlist

Fiction

• THE THROWBACK SPECIAL by Chris Bachelder (W. W. Norton & Company)
• NEWS OF THE WORLD by Paulette Jiles (William Morrow)
• THE ASSOCIATION OF SMALL BOMBS by Karan Mahajan (Viking Books)
• THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday)
• ANOTHER BROOKLYN by Jacqueline Woodson (Amistad)

Nonfiction

• STRANGERS IN THEIR OWN LAND: Anger and Mourning on the American Right, by Arlie Russell Hochschild (The New Press)
• STAMPED FROM THE BEGINNING: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi (Nation Books)
• NOTHING EVER DIES: Vietnam and the Memory of War, by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Harvard University Press)
• THE OTHER SLAVERY: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America, by Andrés Reséndez (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• BLOOD IN THE WATER: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy, by Heather Ann Thompson (Pantheon)

Poetry

• THE PERFORMANCE OF BECOMING HUMAN by Daniel Borzutzky (Brooklyn Arts Press)
• COLLECTED POEMS 1974 – 2004 by Rita Dove (W. W. Norton & Company)
• ARCHEOPHONICS by Peter Gizzi (Wesleyan University Press)
• THE ABRIDGED HISTORY OF RAINFALL by Jay Hopler (McSweeney’s)
• LOOK by Solmaz Sharif (Graywolf Press)

Young People’s Literature

• RAYMIE NIGHTINGALE by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick Press)
• MARCH: Book Three, written by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, illustrated by Nate Powell (Top Shelf)
• WHEN THE SEA TURNED TO SILVER by Grace Lin (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
• GHOST by Jason Reynolds (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
• THE SUN IS ALSO A STAR by Nicola Yoon (Delacorte Press)

2016 Longlist

Fiction

• THE THROWBACK SPECIAL by Chris Bachelder (W. W. Norton & Company)
• WHAT BELONGS TO YOU by Garth Greenwell (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• IMAGINE ME GONE by Adam Haslett (Little, Brown and Company)
• NEWS OF THE WORLD by Paulette Jiles (William Morrow)
• THE ASSOCIATION OF SMALL BOMBS by Karan Mahajan (Viking Books)
• THE PORTABLE VEBLEN by Elizabeth McKenzie (Penguin Press)
• SWEET LAMB OF HEAVEN by Lydia Millet (W. W. Norton & Company)
• MISS JANE by Brad Watson (W. W. Norton & Company)
• THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday)
• ANOTHER BROOKLYN by Jacqueline Woodson (Amistad)

Nonfiction

• AMERICA'S WAR FOR THE GREATER MIDDLE EAST: A Military History, by Andrew J. Bacevich (Random House)
• THE FIREBRAND AND THE FIRST LADY: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice, by Patricia Bell-Scott (Alfred A. Knopf)
• IMBECILES: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck, by Adam Cohen (Penguin Press)
• STRANGERS IN THEIR OWN LAND: Anger and Mourning on the American Right, by Arlie Russell Hochschild (The New Press)
• STAMPED FROM THE BEGINNING: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi (Nation Books)
• NOTHING EVER DIES: Vietnam and the Memory of War, by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Harvard University Press)
• WEAPONS OF MATH DESTRUCTION: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, by Cathy O’Neil (Crown)
• THE OTHER SLAVERY: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America, by Andrés Reséndez (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• THE SLAVE'S CAUSE: A History of Abolition, by Manisha Sinha (Yale University Press)
• BLOOD IN THE WATER: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy, by Heather Ann Thompson (Pantheon)

Poetry

• THE PERFORMANCE OF BECOMING HUMAN by Daniel Borzutzky (Brooklyn Arts Press)
• COLLECTED POEMS 1974 – 2004 by Rita Dove (W. W. Norton & Company)
• ARCHEOPHONICS by Peter Gizzi (Wesleyan University Press)
• THE SELECTED POEMS OF DONALD HALL by Donald Hall (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• THE ABRIDGED HISTORY OF RAINFALL by Jay Hopler (McSweeney’s)
• BESTIARY by Donika Kelly (Graywolf Press)
• WORLD OF MADE AND UNMADE by Jane Mead (Alice James Books)
• LOOK by Solmaz Sharif (Graywolf Press)
• BLACKACRE by Monica Youn (Graywolf Press)
• BLUE LAWS by Kevin Young (Alfred A. Knopf)

Young People’s Literature

• BOOKED by Kwame Alexander (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• RAYMIE NIGHTINGALE by Kate DiCamillo (Candlewick Press)
• MARCH: Book Three, written by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, illustrated by Nate Powell (Top Shelf)
• WHEN THE SEA TURNED TO SILVER by Grace Lin (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
• WHEN THE MOON WAS OURS by Anna-Marie McLemore (Thomas Dunne Books)
• BURN BABY BURN by Meg Medina (Candlewick Press)
• PAX written by Sara Pennypacker, illustrated by Jon Klassen (Balzer & Bray)
• GHOST by Jason Reynolds (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
• SACHIKO: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor’s Story, by Caren Stelson (Carolrhoda Books)
• THE SUN IS ALSO A STAR by Nicola Yoon (Delacorte Press)