The shortlists for this year’s National Book Awards have been announced. Congratulations to all the finalists.

Fiction

• The Throwback Special by Chris Bachelder
• News of the World by Paulette Jiles
• The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan
• The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
• Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson

Nonfiction

• Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild
• Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
• Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War by Viet Thanh Nguyen
• The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America by Andrés Reséndez
• Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson

Poetry

• The Performance of Becoming Human by Daniel Borzutzky
• Collected Poems 1974 – 2004 by Rita Dove
• Archeophonics by Peter Gizzi
• The Abridged History of Rainfall by Jay Hopler
• Look by Solmaz Sharif

Young People’s Literature

• Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo
• March: Book Three by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell
• When the Sea Turned to Silver by Grace Lin
• Ghost by Jason Reynolds
• The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon