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2024 National Book Award Winners and Finalists

Established in 1950 to celebrate the best writing in America, The National Book Awards are overseen by the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to celebrate the best of American literature, to expand its audience, and to enhance the cultural value of great writing in America.

Chicago Public Library

25 items

  • Finalist, Fiction
    BookNew York : Riverhead Books, 2024. — FIC JULY
  • Finalist, Fiction
    BookNew York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2024] — FIC AGUDA
  • Winner, Fiction
    BookNew York : Doubleday, [2024] — FIC EVERETT
  • Finalist, Fiction
    BookNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024. — FIC AKBAR
  • Finalist, Fiction
    BookNew York : Random House, [2024] — FIC MATAR
  • Circle of Hope

    a Reckoning With Love, Power, and Justice in An American Church

    Griswold, Eliza, 1973-
    Finalist, Nonfiction
    BookNew York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024. — BX4933.U6G75 2024
  • Knife

    Meditations After An Attempted Murder

    Rushdie, Salman,
    Finalist, Nonfiction
    BookNew York : Random House, 2024. — PR6068.U757Z46 2024
  • Soldiers and Kings

    Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling

    De León, Jason, 1977-
    Winner, Nonfiction
    Book[New York] : Viking, [2024] — HQ281.D45 2024
  • Unshrinking

    How to Face Fatphobia

    Manne, Kate,
    Finalist, Nonfiction
    BookNew York : Crown, [2024] — HM1091.M37 2024
  • Finalist, Poetry
    PaperbackMinneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2024. — PS3610.O679A615 2024
  • Finalist, Poetry
    Paperback[New York] : Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2024] — PS3618.E4264M68 2024
  • Finalist, Poetry
    BookMinneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2024] — PS3619.E94M63 2024
  • Winner, Poetry
    PaperbackAkron, Ohio : The University of Akron Press, [2024] — PS3620.U363S66 2024
  • Finalist, Poetry
    PaperbackNew York : New Directions Books, [2024] — PS3553.A7667W76 2024
  • Finalist, Translated Literature
    BookNew York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024. — FIC AXELSSON
  • Winner, Translated Literature
    PaperbackMinneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2024] — FIC YANG
  • Finalist, Translated Literature
    PaperbackNew York : World Editions, 2024. — FIC YAZBEK