2025 National Book Award Winners and FinalistsLike this list

25 items

• The Antidote

  Russell, Karen, 1981-

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  Finalist, Fiction

• A Guardian and a Thief

  Majumdar, Megha,

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  Finalist, Fiction

• North Sun, Or, The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther

  a Novel /

  Rutherford, Ethan,

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  Finalist, Fiction

• Palaver

  a Novel

  Washington, Bryan, 1993-

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  Finalist, Fiction

• The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) /

  Alameddine, Rabih,

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  Winner, Fiction

• One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

  El Akkad, Omar, 1982-

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  Winner, Nonfiction

• Motherland

  a Feminist History of Modern Russia, From Revolution to Autocracy

  Ioffe, Julia,

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  Finalist, Nonfiction

• Things in Nature Merely Grow

  Li, Yiyun, 1972-

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  Finalist, Nonfiction

• Wards of the State

  the Long Shadow of American Foster Care /

  Rowe, Claudia, 1966-

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  Finalist, Nonfiction

• When It All Burns

  Fighting Fire in a Transformed World

  Thomas, Jordan (Anthropologist),

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  Finalist, Nonfiction

• Becoming Ghost

  Che, Cathy Linh,

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  Finalist, Poetry

• I Do Know Some Things

  Siken, Richard, 1967-

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  Finalist, Poetry

• The Intentions of Thunder

  New and Selected Poems

  Smith, Patricia, 1955-

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  Winner, Poetry

• The New Economy

  Calvocoressi, Gabrielle

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  Finalist, Poetry

• Scorched Earth

  Poems

  Clark, Tiana,

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  Finalist, Poetry

• On the Calculation of Volume. III

  Balle, Solvej, 1962-

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  Finalist, Translated Literature

• The Remembered Soldier

  Daanje, Anjet, 1965-

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  Finalist, Translated Literature

• Sad Tiger

  Sinno, Neige, 1977-

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  Finalist, Translated Literature

• We Are Green and Trembling

  Cabezón Cámara, Gabriela, 1968-

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  Winner, Translated Literature

• We Computers

  a Ghazal Novel

  Ismailov, Hamid, 1954-

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  Finalist, Translated Literature