Here Are the Nominees for the 2017 National Book Award

The National Book Foundation announced its long lists for the 2017 awards this week, with the final and most anticipated category — fiction — announced on Friday. The list includes past favorites, like Sing, Unburied, Sing author Jesmyn Ward — who won the award in 2011 for her last novel, Salvage the Bones — as well as newcomers like debut novelist Lisa Ko. The short list will come out on Oct. 4, and the winners will be announced in a ceremony on Nov. 15. Fiction Elliot Ackerman, Dark at the Crossing Daniel Alarcón, The King Is Always Above the People: Stories Charmaine Craig, Miss Burma Jennifer Egan, Manhattan Beach Lisa Ko, The Leavers Min Jin Lee, Pachinko Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, A Kind of Freedom Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing Carol Zoref, Barren Island Nonfiction Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge Frances FitzGerald, The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America James Forman Jr., Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America Masha Gessen, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI Naomi Klein, No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America R...
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