2024 National Book Awards Finalists
Finalists for the National Book Awards (NBA) have been announced, including titles and authors of genre interest in multiple categories.
Fiction
- Ghostroots, ’Pemi Aguda (Norton)
- James, Percival Everett (Doubleday)
Nonfiction
- Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, Salman Rushdie (Random House)
Young People’s Literature
- Buffalo Dreamer, Violet Duncan (Nancy Paulsen)
- The First State of Being, Erin Entrada Kelly (Greenwillow)
Translated Literature
- The Book Censor’s Library, Bothayna Al-Essa, translated by Ranya Abdelrahman and Sawad Hussain (Restless Books)
Winners will be honored at the 75th National Book Awards Ceremony on November 20, 2024.
For more information, including the complete lists of finalists, see the National Book Foundation site.
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