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The 25 finalists for this year\u2019s National Book Award have been revealed, and it\u2019s time to make room on your bookshelf for these superior reads. <\/strong><\/p>\n Among the list are returning winners such as Terrance Hayes, who won the poetry award for Lighthead<\/i> back in 2010. This year, his poetry collection American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin <\/i>has advanced to the shortlist.<\/i> Lauren Groff, who previously was a finalist for Fates and Furies in <\/i>2015, has earned a spot on the shortlist for her short story collection Florida<\/i>. There are plenty of newcomers this year as well, including Jamel Brinkley, a fresh voice in fiction honored for his stories collection titled A Lucky Man<\/i>. Tayari Jones, who was long listed for her Oprah-celebrated novel An American Marriage<\/i>, regrettably did not make the cut. <\/strong><\/p>\n This year is also the first time since 1983 that the National Book Awards have added a competitive category \u2013 a prize for Translated Literature. <\/strong><\/p>\n On November 14th, the National Book Awards for 2018 will be announced. Check out the comprehensive list of finalists below.<\/strong><\/p>\n Jamel Brinkley,\u00a0A Lucky Man<\/em><\/strong> Lauren Groff,\u00a0Florida<\/em><\/strong> Brandon Hobson,\u00a0Where the Dead Sit Talking<\/em><\/strong> Rebecca Makkai,\u00a0The Great Believers<\/em><\/strong> Sigrid Nunez,\u00a0The Friend<\/em><\/strong> Colin G. Calloway,\u00a0The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation<\/em><\/strong> Victoria Johnson,\u00a0American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic<\/em><\/strong> Sarah Smarsh,\u00a0Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth<\/em><\/strong> Jeffrey C. Stewart, The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke<\/em><\/strong> Adam Winkler,\u00a0We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights<\/em><\/strong> Rae Armantrout,\u00a0Wobble<\/em><\/strong> Terrance Hayes,\u00a0American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin<\/em><\/strong> Diana Khoi Nguyen,\u00a0Ghost Of<\/em><\/strong> Justin Phillip Reed,\u00a0Indecency<\/em><\/strong> Jenny Xie,\u00a0Eye Level<\/em><\/strong> N\u00e9gar Djavadi,\u00a0Disoriental<\/em><\/strong> Hanne \u00d8rstavik,\u00a0Love<\/em><\/strong> Domenico Starnone,\u00a0Trick<\/em><\/strong> Yoko Tawada,\u00a0The Emissary<\/em><\/strong> Olga Tokarczuk,\u00a0Flights<\/em><\/strong> Elizabeth Acevedo,\u00a0The Poet X<\/em><\/strong> M. T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin,\u00a0The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge<\/em><\/strong> Leslie Connor,\u00a0The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle<\/em><\/strong> Christopher Paul Curtis,\u00a0The Journey of Little Charlie<\/em><\/strong> Jarrett J. Krosoczka,\u00a0Hey, Kiddo<\/em><\/strong> The 25 finalists for this year\u2019s National Book Award have been revealed, and it\u2019s time to make room on your bookshelf for these superior reads. Among the list are returning winners such as Terrance Hayes, who won the poetry award for Lighthead back in 2010. This year, his poetry collection American Sonnets for My Past […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174],"tags":[32,31,427,425,426,51],"class_list":["post-3450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books-books","tag-books","tag-featured","tag-jamel-brinkley","tag-national-book-award","tag-terrance-hayes","tag-trending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.watchjaro.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}FICTION<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
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\nRiverhead Books \/ Penguin Random House<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nSoho Press<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nViking Books \/ Penguin Random House<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nRiverhead Books \/ Penguin Random House<\/strong><\/p>\nNONFICTION<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
\nOxford University Press<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nLiveright \/ W. W. Norton & Company<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nScribner \/ Simon & Schuster<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nOxford University Press<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nLiveright \/ W. W. Norton & Company<\/strong><\/p>\nPOETRY<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
\nWesleyan University Press<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nPenguin Books \/ Penguin Random House<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nOmnidawn Publishing<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nCoffee House Press<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nGraywolf Press<\/strong><\/p>\nTRANSLATED LITERATURE<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
\nTranslated by Tina Kover<\/strong>
\nEuropa Editions<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nTranslated by Martin Aitken<\/strong>
\nArchipelago Books<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nTranslated by Jhumpa Lahiri<\/strong>
\nEuropa Editions<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nTranslated by Margaret Mitsutani<\/strong>
\nNew Directions Publishing<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nTranslated by Jennifer Croft<\/strong>
\nRiverhead Books \/ Penguin Random House<\/strong><\/p>\nYOUNG PEOPLE\u2019S LITERATURE<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
\nHarperTeen \/ HarperCollins Publishers<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nCandlewick Press<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nKatherine Tegen Books \/ HarperCollins Publishers<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nScholastic Press \/ Scholastic, Inc.<\/strong><\/p>\n
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