National Book Awards

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 Awards, which include a cash stipend, are given to books written by U.S. citizens "that have contributed most significantly to human awareness, to the vitality of our national culture and to the spirit of excellence." Panels of three judges select the winners from candidates that were published during the previous calendar year. Categories have changed through the years.


 

Trust Exercise: A Novel By Susan Choi Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9781250309884
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Published: Henry Holt and Co. - April 9th, 2019

2019 Winner for Fiction


Sight Lines By Arthur Sze Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9781556595592
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Published: Copper Canyon Press - April 9th, 2019

2019 Winner for Poetry


The Yellow House: A Memoir (2019 National Book Award Winner) By Sarah M. Broom Cover Image
$26.00
ISBN: 9780802125088
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Published: Grove Press - August 13th, 2019

2019 Winner for Non Fiction


Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming By László Krasznahorkai, Ottilie Mulzet (Translated by) Cover Image
$29.95
ISBN: 9780811226646
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Published: New Directions - September 24th, 2019

2019 Winner for Translated Literature


1919 The Year That Changed America By Martin W. Sandler Cover Image
$24.99
ISBN: 9781681198019
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Published: Bloomsbury Children's Books - January 8th, 2019

2019 Winner for Young People's Literature


The Friend (National Book Award Winner): A Novel By Sigrid Nunez Cover Image
$25.00
ISBN: 9780735219441
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Published: Riverhead Books - February 6th, 2018

2018 Winner for Fiction


Indecency By Justin Phillip Reed Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781566895149
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Published: Coffee House Press - May 8th, 2018

2018 Winner for Poetry


The Emissary By Yoko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani (Translated by) Cover Image
By Yoko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani (Translated by)
$14.95
ISBN: 9780811227629
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Published: New Directions - April 24th, 2018

2018 Winner for Translated Literature


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The Poet X By Elizabeth Acevedo Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9780062662804
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Published: Quill Tree Books - March 6th, 2018

2018 Winner for Young People's Literature


Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel By Jesmyn Ward Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9781501126062
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Published: Scribner - September 5th, 2017

2017 Winner for Fiction


The Future Is History (National Book Award Winner): How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia By Masha Gessen Cover Image
$28.00
Unavailable, Out of Stock, or Out of Print
ISBN: 9781594634536
Published: Riverhead Books - October 3rd, 2017

2017 Winner for Nonfiction


Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 By Frank Bidart Cover Image
$40.00
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ISBN: 9780374125950
Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - August 15th, 2017

2017 Winner for Poetry


Far from the Tree By Robin Benway Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780062330628
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Published: HarperTeen - October 3rd, 2017

2017 Winner for Young People's Literature


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The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner) (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel By Colson Whitehead Cover Image
$27.95
ISBN: 9780385542364
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Published: Doubleday - August 2nd, 2016

2016 Winner for Fiction


Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America By Ibram X. Kendi Cover Image
$32.99
ISBN: 9781568584638
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Published: Bold Type Books - April 12th, 2016

2016 Winner for Nonfiction


The Performance of Becoming Human By Daniel Borzutzky Cover Image
$18.00
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ISBN: 9781936767465
Published: Brooklyn Arts Press LLC - April 1st, 2016

2016 Winner for Poetry 


March: Book Three By John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell (Illustrator) Cover Image
By John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell (Illustrator)
$19.99
ISBN: 9781603094023
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Published: Top Shelf Productions - August 2nd, 2016

2016 Winner for Young People's Literature 


Fortune Smiles: Stories By Adam Johnson Cover Image
$27.00
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ISBN: 9780812997477
Published: Random House - August 18th, 2015

2015 Winner for Fiction


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Between the World and Me By Ta-Nehisi Coates Cover Image
$26.00
ISBN: 9780812993547
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Published: One World - July 14th, 2015

2015 Winner for Nonfiction


Voyage of the Sable Venus: and Other Poems By Robin Coste Lewis Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781101875438
Published: Knopf - September 29th, 2015

2015 Winner for Poetry 


Challenger Deep By Neal Shusterman, Brendan Shusterman (Illustrator) Cover Image
$15.99
ISBN: 9780061134142
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Published: Quill Tree Books - April 26th, 2016

2015 Winner for Young People's Literature 


Redeployment: National Book Award Winner By Phil Klay Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780143126829
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Published: Penguin Books - February 24th, 2015

2014 Winner for Fiction 


Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China By Evan Osnos Cover Image
$20.00
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ISBN: 9780374535278
Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - May 5th, 2015

2014 Winner for Nonfiction 


Faithful and Virtuous Night: Poems By Louise Glück Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780374535773
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - September 1st, 2015

2014 Winner for Poetry 


Brown Girl Dreaming By Jacqueline Woodson Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9780399252518
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Published: Nancy Paulsen Books - August 28th, 2014

2014 Winner for Young People's Literature 


The Good Lord Bird (National Book Award Winner): A Novel By James McBride Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9781594632785
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Published: Riverhead Books - August 5th, 2014

2013 Winner for Fiction 


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The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America By George Packer Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780374534608
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - March 4th, 2014

2013 Winner for Nonfiction 


Incarnadine: Poems By Mary Szybist Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9781555976354
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Published: Graywolf Press - February 5th, 2013

2013 Winner for Poetry 


The Thing About Luck By Cynthia Kadohata, Julia Kuo (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Cynthia Kadohata, Julia Kuo (Illustrator)
$8.99
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ISBN: 9781442474659
Published: Atheneum Books for Young Readers - June 3rd, 2014

2013 Winner for Young People's Literature 


The Round House: National Book Award Winning Fiction By Louise Erdrich Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9780062065254
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Published: Harper Perennial - September 24th, 2013

2012 Winner for Fiction 


Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity By Katherine Boo Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780812979329
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - April 8th, 2014

2012 Winner for Nonfiction 


Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations (Phoenix Poets) By David Ferry Cover Image
$18.00
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ISBN: 9780226244884
Published: University of Chicago Press - September 14th, 2012

2012 Winner for Poetry 


Goblin Secrets By William Alexander Cover Image
$7.99
ISBN: 9781442427273
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Published: Margaret K. McElderry Books - July 23rd, 2013

2012 Winner for Young People's Literature 


Salvage the Bones: A Novel By Jesmyn Ward Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781608196265
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Published: Bloomsbury USA - April 24th, 2012

2011 Winner for Fiction 


The Swerve: How the World Became Modern By Stephen Greenblatt Cover Image
$18.95
ISBN: 9780393343403
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - September 4th, 2012

2011 Winner for Nonfiction 


Head Off & Split: Poems By Nikky Finney Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9780810152168
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Published: TriQuarterly - January 27th, 2011

2011 Winner for Poetry 


Inside Out and Back Again: A Newbery Honor Award Winner By Thanhhà Lai Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780061962790
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Published: HarperCollins - January 2nd, 2013

2011 Winner for Young People's Literature 


Lord of Misrule (Vintage Contemporaries) By Jaimy Gordon Cover Image
$16.95
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ISBN: 9780307946737
Published: Vintage - March 8th, 2011

2010 Winner for Fiction 


Just Kids: A National Book Award Winner By Patti Smith Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9780060936228
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Published: Ecco - November 2nd, 2010

2010 Winner for Nonfiction 


Lighthead: Poems (National Book Award Winner) (Penguin Poets) By Terrance Hayes Cover Image
$19.00
ISBN: 9780143116967
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Published: Penguin Books - March 30th, 2010

2010 Winner for Poetry 


Mockingbird By Kathryn Erskine Cover Image
$8.99
ISBN: 9780142417751
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Published: Puffin Books - February 3rd, 2011

2010 Winner for Young People's Literature