The finalists for this year’s National Book Awards have been announced!

2018 Finalists for Fiction

• A Lucky Man by Jamel Brinkley
• Florida by Lauren Groff
• Where the Dead Sit Talking by Brandon Hobson
• The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
• The Friend by Sigrid Nunez

2018 Finalists for Nonfiction

• The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation by Colin G. Calloway
• American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic by Victoria Johnson
• Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh
• The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C. Stewart
• We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights by Adam Winkler

2018 Finalists for Young People’s Literature

• The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
• The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge by M.T. Anderson & Eugene Yelchin
• The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle by Leslie Connor
• The Journey of Little Charlie by Christopher Paul Curtis
• Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett J. Krosoczka

2018 Finalists for Poetry

• Wobble by Rae Armantrout
• American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes
• Ghost Of by Diana Khoi Nguyen
• Indecency by Justin Phillip Reed
• Eye Level by Jenny Xie

2018 Finalists for Translated Literature

• Disoriental by Négar Djavadi (translated from French by Tina Kover)
• Love by Hanne Orstavik (translated from Norwegian by Martin Aitken)
• Trick by Domenico Starnone (translated from Italian by Jhumpa Lahiri)
• The Emissary by Yoko Tawada (translated from Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani)
• _Flights_by Olga Tokarczuk (translated from Polish by Jennifer Croft)

2018 5 Under 35 Honorees

• Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah for Friday Black
• Hannah Lillith Assadi for Sonora
• Akwaeke Emezi for Freshwater
• Lydia Kiesling for The Golden State
• Moriel Rothman-Zecher for Sadness Is a White Bird

2018 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters

Isabel Allende

2018 Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community

Doron Weber, Vice President, Programs and Program Director at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation