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The National Book Awards 2017

Awards

The National Book Awards 2017

Winners of the 2017 National Book Award in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry and Young People's Literature were announced at the 68th National Book Awards Benefit Dinner and Ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City on November 15, 2017.

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.
 


 

2017 Winners

 

Fiction
SING, UNBURIED, SING by Jesmyn Ward (Scribner)

Nonfiction
THE FUTURE IS HISTORY: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, by Masha Gessen (Riverhead Books)

Poetry
HALF-LIGHT: Collected Poems 1965-2016 by Frank Bidart (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Young People’s Literature
FAR FROM THE TREE by Robin Benway (HarperTeen)

 


 

2017 Shortlist

 

Fiction

  • DARK AT THE CROSSING by Elliot Ackerman (Knopf)
  • THE LEAVERS by Lisa Ko (Algonquin Books)
  • PACHINKO by Min Jin Lee (Grand Central Publishing)
  • HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado (Graywolf Press)
  • SING, UNBURIED, SING by Jesmyn Ward (Scribner)

Nonfiction

  • NEVER CAUGHT: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge, by Erica Armstrong Dunbar (Atria / 37 INK)
  • THE EVANGELICALS: The Struggle to Shape America, by Frances FitzGerald (Simon & Schuster)
  • THE FUTURE IS HISTORY: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, by Masha Gessen (Riverhead Books)
  • KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, by David Grann (Doubleday)
  • DEMOCRACY IN CHAINS: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America, by Nancy MacLean (Viking)

Poetry

  • HALF-LIGHT: Collected Poems 1965-2016 by Frank Bidart (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
  • THE BOOK OF ENDINGS by Leslie Harrison (University of Akron Press)
  • WHEREAS by Layli Long Soldier (Graywolf Press)
  • IN THE LANGUAGE OF MY CAPTOR by Shane McCrae (Wesleyan University Press)
  • DON'T CALL US DEAD: Poems by Danez Smith (Graywolf Press)

Young People’s Literature

  • WHAT GIRLS ARE MADE OF by Elana K. Arnold (Carolrhoda Lab)
  • FAR FROM THE TREE by Robin Benway (HarperTeen)
  • I AM NOT YOUR PERFECT MEXICAN DAUGHTER by Erika L. Sánchez (Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers)
  • CLAYTON BYRD GOES UNDERGROUND by Rita Williams-Garcia (Amistad)
  • AMERICAN STREET by Ibi Zoboi (Balzer + Bray)

 


 

2017 Longlist

 

Fiction

  • DARK AT THE CROSSING by Elliot Ackerman (Knopf)
  • THE KING IS ALWAYS ABOVE THE PEOPLE: Stories by Daniel Alarcón (Riverhead Books)
  • MISS BURMA by Charmaine Craig (Grove Press)
  • MANHATTAN BEACH by Jennifer Egan (Scribner)
  • THE LEAVERS by Lisa Ko (Algonquin Books)
  • PACHINKO by Min Jin Lee (Grand Central Publishing)
  • HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado (Graywolf Press)
  • A KIND OF FREEDOM by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton (Counterpoint Press)
  • SING, UNBURIED, SING by Jesmyn Ward (Scribner)
  • BARREN ISLAND by Carol Zoref (New Issues Poetry & Prose)

Nonfiction

  • NEVER CAUGHT: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge, by Erica Armstrong Dunbar (Atria / 37 INK)
  • THE EVANGELICALS: The Struggle to Shape America, by Frances FitzGerald (Simon & Schuster)
  • LOCKING UP OUR OWN: Crime and Punishment in Black America, by James Forman Jr. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
  • THE FUTURE IS HISTORY: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, by Masha Gessen (Riverhead Books)
  • KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, by David Grann (Doubleday)
  • NO IS NOT ENOUGH: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need, by Naomi Klein (Haymarket Books)
  • DEMOCRACY IN CHAINS: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America, by Nancy MacLean (Viking)
  • THE COLOR OF LAW: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, by Richard Rothstein (Liveright)
  • THE BLOOD OF EMMETT TILL by Timothy B. Tyson (Simon & Schuster)
  • BUNK: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News, by Kevin Young (Graywolf Press)

Poetry

  • HALF-LIGHT: Collected Poems 1965-2016 by Frank Bidart (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
  • WHEN I GROW UP I WANT TO BE A LIST OF FURTHER POSSIBILITIES by Chen Chen (BOA Editions Ltd.)
  • THE BOOK OF ENDINGS by Leslie Harrison (University of Akron Press)
  • MAGDALENE: Poems by Marie Howe (W.W. Norton & Co.)
  • WHERE NOW: New and Selected Poems by Laura Kasischke (Copper Canyon Press)
  • WHEREAS by Layli Long Soldier (Graywolf Press)
  • IN THE LANGUAGE OF MY CAPTOR by Shane McCrae (Wesleyan University Press)
  • SQUARE INCH HOURS by Sherod Santos (W.W. Norton & Co.)
  • DON'T CALL US DEAD: Poems by Danez Smith (Graywolf Press)
  • AFTERLAND by Mai Der Vang (Graywolf Press)

Young People’s Literature

  • WHAT GIRLS ARE MADE OF by Elana K. Arnold (Carolrhoda Lab)
  • FAR FROM THE TREE by Robin Benway (HarperTeen)
  • ALL THE WIND IN THE WORLD by Samantha Mabry (Algonquin Young Readers)
  • YOU BRING THE DISTANT NEAR by Mitali Perkins (Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers)
  • LONG WAY DOWN by Jason Reynolds (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books)
  • I AM NOT YOUR PERFECT MEXICAN DAUGHTER by Erika L. Sánchez (Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers)
  • ORPHAN ISLAND by Laurel Snyder (Walden Pond Press)
  • THE HATE U GIVE by Angie Thomas (Balzer + Bray)
  • CLAYTON BYRD GOES UNDERGROUND by Rita Williams-Garcia (Amistad)
  • AMERICAN STREET by Ibi Zoboi (Balzer + Bray)