The finalists for this year’s National Book Awards have been announced.
2019 Finalists for Fiction
- Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
- Sabrina & Corina: Stories by Kali Fajardo-Anstine,
- Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
- The Other Americans by Laila Lalami
- Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips
2019 Finalists for Nonfiction
- The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom
- Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom
- What You Have Heard is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance by Carolyn Forché
- The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer
- Solitary by Albert Woodfox with Leslie George
2019 Finalists for Young People’s Literature
- Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
- Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks by Jason Reynolds
- Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay
- Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All by Laura Ruby
- 1919: The Year That Changed America by Martin W. Sandler
2019 Finalists for Poetry
- The Tradition by Jericho Brown
- “I”: New and Selected Poems by Toi Derricotte
- Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky
- Be Recorder by Carmen Giménez Smith
- Sight Lines by Arthur Sze
2019 Finalists for Translated Literature
- Death Is Hard Work by Khaled Khalifa (translated from Arabic by Leri Price)
- Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming by László Krasznahorkai (translated from Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet)
- The Barefoot Woman by Scholastique Mukasonga (translated from French by Jordan Stump)
- The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa (translated from Japanese by Stephen Snyder)
- Crossing by Pajtim Statovci (translated from Finnish by David Hackston)
2019 5 Under 35 Honorees
- So Many Olympic Exertions by Anelise Chen
- The Parisian by Isabella Hammad
- Such Good Work by Johannes Lichtman
- Lot: Stories by Bryan Washington
- Happy Like This by Ashley Wurzbacher
2019 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters
Edmund White
2019 Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community
Oren J. Teicher, CEO of the American Booksellers Association (ABA) since 2009
