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National Book Awards
Discover winners and nominees of the National Book Awards, one of the most prestigious literary prizes given in the United States. Whether you’re looking for this year’s finalists or past winners like James, The Poet X or Just Kids, explore critically acclaimed fiction, nonfiction, poetry and more.
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The National Book Awards are the nation's preeminent literary prizes, honoring outstanding Fiction, Young People's Literature, Poetry, Nonfiction, and Translated Literature. The 2025 National Book Award Longlist for Fiction includes Flashlight, The Wilderness, The True True Story of Raja the Gullible, The Antidote, The Sisters,A Guardian and a Thief, North Sun, Palaver, The Pelican Child, and Only Son . Find all the books from National Book Award finalists and winners at Barnes & Noble. The 2025 Longlist for Nonfiction includes:
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
When It All Burns
Things in Nature Merely Grow
Black Moses
The Salt Stones
Wards of the State
For the Sun After Long Nights
Run the Song
Motherland
The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
When It All Burns
Things in Nature Merely Grow
Black Moses
The Salt Stones
Wards of the State
For the Sun After Long Nights
Run the Song
Motherland
The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam