The shortlists for this year’s National Book Awards have been announced. Congratulations to all the finalists.
2017 Fiction Shortlist
- Dark at the Crossing by Elliot Ackerman
- The Leavers by Lisa Ko
- Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
- Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
- Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
2017 Nonfiction Shortlist
- Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
- The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America by Frances FitzGerald
- The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen
- Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
- Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America by Nancy MacLean
2017 Poetry Shortlist
- Half-light by Frank Bidart
- The Book of Endings by Leslie Harrison
- WHEREAS by Layli Long Soldier
- In the Language of My Captor by Shane McCrae
- Don’t Call Us Dead by Danez Smith
2017 Young People’s Literature Shortlist
- What Girls Are Made Of by Elana K. Arnold
- Far from the Tree by Robin Benway
- I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez
- Clayton Byrd Goes Underground by Rita Williams-Garcia
- American Street by Ibi Zoboi
2017 5 Under 35 Honorees
- Lesley Nneka Arimah, author of What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
- Halle Butler, author of Jillian
- Zinzi Clemmons, author of What We Lose
- Leopoldine Core, author of When Watched
- Weike Wang, author of Chemistry
2017 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
- Annie Proulx
2017 Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community
- Scholastic Chairman, President & CEO Richard Robinson