The National Book Foundation has announced the National Book Award shortlists for 2016. The awards, which were first awarded in 1935, are given out in four categories; Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People’s Literature, with the winners to be announced on November 16.
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FICTION:
The Throwback Special by Chris Bachelder
News of the World by Paulette Jiles
The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
NON-FICTION:
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War by Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America by Andrés Reséndez
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson
POETRY:
The Performance of Becoming Human by Daniel Borzutzky
Collected Poems 1974–2004 by Rita Dove
Archeophonics by Peter Gizzi
The Abridged History of Rainfall by Jay Hopler
Look by Solmaz Sharif
YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE:
Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo
March: Book Three by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell
When the Sea Turned to Silver by Grace Lin
Ghost by Jason Reynolds
The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon