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2024 National Book Awards Finalists Announced: Complete List
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2024 National Book Awards Finalists Announced: Complete List

Attention book lovers: It’s almost time for the literary world’s most coveted evening – the 2024 National Book Awards.

Twenty-five finalists, announced Tuesday, will compete for the prize in the areas of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature and young adult literature. Winners receive $10,000, a bronze medal and a statue. Finalists receive $1,000 and a bronze medal.

The winners of the National Book Awards will be announced at the 75th annual awards ceremony on November 20 in New York. The event will be broadcast live on YouTube, Facebook and the National Book Foundation website.

2024 National Book Awards Finalists: Complete List

The National Book Awards have honored the best literature since 1950.

Notable past winners include William Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Adrienne Rich, Alice Walker and Ta-Nehisi Coates. This year’s finalists come from more than 1,900 works submitted by publishers. Five of the 25 titles are debut titles and ten university or independent publishers are represented, according to the foundation’s press release.

Here is the full list:

Fiction finalists

  • “Ghostroots” by ‘Pemi Aguda
  • “Martyr!” by Kaveh Akbar
  • “James” by Percival Everett
  • “All Fours” by Miranda July
  • “My Friends” by Hisham Matar

Nonfiction finalists

  • “Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of People Smuggling” by Jason De León
  • “Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church” by Eliza Griswold
  • Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia by Kate Manne
  • “Knives: Meditations After Attempted Murder” by Salman Rushdie
  • “Whiskey Tender” by Deborah Jackson Taffa

Poetry finalists

  • “Wrong Norma” by Anne Carson
  • “(…)” by Fady Joudah
  • “Mother” by Ms. RedCherries
  • “Modern Poetry” by Diane Seuss
  • “Something about life” by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha

Finalists for Translated Literature:

  • “The Book Censor’s Library” by Bothayna Al-Essa, translated from Arabic by Ranya Abdelrahman and Sawad Hussain
  • “Ædnan” by Linnea Axelsson, translated from Swedish by Saskia Vogel
  • “The Villain’s Dance” by Fiston Mwanza Mujila, translated from French by Roland Glasser
  • “Taiwan Travelogue” by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated from Mandarin Chinese by Lin King
  • “Where the Wind Calls Home” by Samar Yazbek, translated from Arabic by Leri Price

Finalists for Young Adult Literature

  • “Buffalo Dreamer” by Violet Duncan
  • The Great Cool Ranch Dorito in the Sky by Josh Galarza
  • “The First State of Being” by Erin Entrada Kelly
  • “Kareem Between” by Shifa Saltagi Safadi
  • “Unpacking a Black Girl” by Angela Shanté

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