The winners of the 2024 National Book Award in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature and Young People's Literature were announced on November 20th at the 75th National Book Awards Ceremony.

Two lifetime achievement awards also were presented as part of the evening’s ceremony. W. Paul Coates, the founder of Black Classic Press and BCP Digital Printing, received the National Book Foundation’s Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community. And Barbara Kingsolver, who won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel, DEMON COPPERHEAD, was recognized with the Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

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.
 

2024 Winners

Fiction

• JAMES by Percival Everett (Doubleday)

Nonfiction

• SOLDIERS AND KINGS: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling, by Jason De León (Viking)

Poetry

• SOMETHING ABOUT LIVING by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha (University of Akron Press)

Translated Literature

• TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated from the Mandarin Chinese by Lin King (Graywolf Press)

Young People’s Literature

• KAREEM BETWEEN by Shifa Saltagi Safadi (G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers)
   

2024 Finalists

Fiction

• GHOSTROOTS by ‘Pemi Aguda (W. W. Norton & Company)
• MARTYR! by Kaveh Akbar (Knopf)
• JAMES by Percival Everett (Doubleday)
• ALL FOURS by Miranda July (Riverhead Books)
• MY FRIENDS by Hisham Matar (Random House)

Nonfiction

• SOLDIERS AND KINGS: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling, by Jason De León (Viking)
• CIRCLE OF HOPE: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church, by Eliza Griswold (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• UNSHRINKING: How to Face Fatphobia, by Kate Manne (Crown)
• KNIFE: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, by Salman Rushdie (Random House)
• WHISKEY TENDER by Deborah Jackson Taffa (Harper)

Poetry

• WRONG NORMA by Anne Carson (New Directions Publishing)
• […] by Fady Joudah (Milkweed Editions)
• MOTHER by m.s. RedCherries (Penguin Books)
• MODERN POETRY by Diane Seuss (Graywolf Press)
• SOMETHING ABOUT LIVING by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha (University of Akron Press)

Translated Literature

• THE BOOK CENSOR'S LIBRARY by Bothayna Al-Essa, translated from the Arabic by Ranya Abdelrahman and Sawad Hussain (Restless Books)
• ÆDNAN by Linnea Axelsson, translated from the Swedish by Saskia Vogel (Knopf)
• THE VILLAIN'S DANCE by Fiston Mwanza Mujila, translated from the French by Roland Glasser (Deep Vellum)
• TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated from the Mandarin Chinese by Lin King (Graywolf Press)
• WHERE THE WIND CALLS HOME by Samar Yazbek, translated from the Arabic by Leri Price (World Editions)

Young People’s Literature

• BUFFALO DREAMER by Violet Duncan (Nancy Paulsen Books)
• THE GREAT COOL RANCH DORITO IN THE SKY by Josh Galarza (Henry Holt and Company BYR)
• THE FIRST STATE OF BEING by Erin Entrada Kelly (Greenwillow Books)
• KAREEM BETWEEN by Shifa Saltagi Safadi (G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers)
• THE UNBOXING OF A BLACK GIRL by Angela Shanté (Page Street Publishing)
   

2024 Longlists

Fiction

• GHOSTROOTS by ‘Pemi Aguda (W. W. Norton & Company)
• MARTYR! by Kaveh Akbar (Knopf)
• THE MOST by Jessica Anthony (Little, Brown and Company)
• CATALINA by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio (One World)
• JAMES by Percival Everett (Doubleday)
• ALL FOURS by Miranda July (Riverhead Books)
• CREATION LAKE by Rachel Kushner (Scribner)
• MY FRIENDS by Hisham Matar (Random House)
• YR DEAD by Sam Sax (McSweeney’s)
• REJECTION by Tony Tulathimutte (William Morrow)

Nonfiction

• THERE'S ALWAYS THIS YEAR: On Basketball and Ascension, by Hanif Abdurraqib (Random House)
• OUR MOON: How Earth’s Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are, by Rebecca Boyle (Random House)
• SOLDIERS AND KINGS: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling, by Jason De León (Viking)
• CIRCLE OF HOPE: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church, by Eliza Griswold (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• UNSHRINKING: How to Face Fatphobia, by Kate Manne (Crown)
• KNIFE: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, by Salman Rushdie (Random House)
• THE WAR BELOW: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives, by Ernest Scheyder (Atria/One Signal Publishers)
• A GREAT DISORDER: National Myth and the Battle for America, by Richard Slotkin (Belknap Press)
• WHISKEY TENDER by Deborah Jackson Taffa (Harper)
• MAGICAL REALISM: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders, by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal (Tiny Reparations Books)

Poetry

• WRONG NORMA by Anne Carson (New Directions Publishing)
• […] by Fady Joudah (Milkweed Editions)
• LIFE ON EARTH by Dorianne Laux (W. W. Norton & Company)
• SPECTRAL EVIDENCE by Gregory Pardlo (Knopf)
• SILVER by Rowan Ricardo Phillips (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• THE BOOK OF WOUNDED SPARROWS by Octavio Quintanilla (Texas Review Press)
• MOTHER by m.s. RedCherries (Penguin Books)
• MODERN POETRY by Diane Seuss (Graywolf Press)
• SOMETHING ABOUT LIVING by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha (University of Akron Press)
• LIONTAMING IN AMERICA by Elizabeth Willis (New Directions Publishing)

Translated Literature

• THE TALE OF A WALL: Reflections on the Meaning of Hope and Freedom, by Nasser Abu Srour, translated from the Arabic by Luke Leafgren (Other Press)
• THE BOOK CENSOR'S LIBRARY by Bothayna Al-Essa, translated from the Arabic by Ranya Abdelrahman and Sawad Hussain (Restless Books)
• ÆDNAN by Linnea Axelsson, translated from the Swedish by Saskia Vogel (Knopf)
• ON THE CALCULATION OF VOLUME (Book I) by Solvej Balle, translated from the Danish by Barbara J. Haveland (New Directions Publishing)
• WOODWORM by Layla Martínez, translated from Spanish by Sophie Hughes and Annie McDermott (Two Lines Press)
• THE VILLAIN'S DANCE by Fiston Mwanza Mujila, translated from the French by Roland Glasser (Deep Vellum)
• PINK SLIME by Fernanda Trías, translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary (Scribner)
• THE ABYSS by Fernando Vallejo, translated from the Spanish by Yvette Siegert (New Directions Publishing)
• TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated from the Mandarin Chinese by Lin King (Graywolf Press)
• WHERE THE WIND CALLS HOME by Samar Yazbek, translated from the Arabic by Leri Price (World Editions)

Young People’s Literature

• ARIEL CRASHES A TRAIN by Olivia A. Cole (Labyrinth Road)
• BUFFALO DREAMER by Violet Duncan (Nancy Paulsen Books)
• WILD DREAMERS by Margarita Engle (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
• THE GREAT COOL RANCH DORITO IN THE SKY by Josh Galarza (Henry Holt and Company BYR)
• THE FIRST STATE OF BEING by Erin Entrada Kelly (Greenwillow Books)
• EVERYTHING WE NEVER HAD by Randy Ribay (Kokila)
• KAREEM BETWEEN by Shifa Saltagi Safadi (G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers)
• THE UNBOXING OF A BLACK GIRL by Angela Shanté (Page Street Publishing)
• FREE PERIOD by Ali Terese (Scholastic Press)
• MID-AIR by Alicia D. Williams (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books)