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The National Book Awards 2024

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.

Week of December 30, 2024

Paperback releases for the week of December 30th include THE MYSTERY GUEST, the second installment in Nita Prose's fun and entertaining series featuring Molly Gray, the esteemed Head Maid of the five-star Regency Grand Hotel, who must uncover the truth behind the death of a world-renowned mystery author, no matter how dirty; SHE'S NOT SORRY by Mary Kubica, a chilling thriller about an ICU nurse who accidentally uncovers a patient’s frightening past; B. A. Paris' THE GUEST, a heart-pounding work of domestic suspense in which each character’s past unravels, some of which are more dangerous than they ever could have known; and MARTYR!, an electrifying, funny and wholly original novel from Kaveh Akbar, which revolves around a newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants who --- guided by the voices of artists, poets and kings --- embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum.