2020 National Book Award Winners and Nominees

by Yu, Charles

Book - 2020

Fiction winner - Playful but heartfelt, a send-up of Hollywood tropes and Asian stereotypes, Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu's most moving, daring, and masterly novel yet. Fiction winner - Playful but heartfelt, a send-up of Hollywood tropes and Asian stereotypes, Interior Chinatown is Charles Yu's most moving, daring, and masterly novel yet. Show less

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The Dead Are Arising

The Life of Malcolm X

by Payne, Les

Book - 2020

Non-Fiction winner - Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to inter...Show more Non-Fiction winner - Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Malcolm. His goal was ambitious: to transform what would become over a hundred hours of interviews into an unprecedented portrait of Malcolm X, Show less

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Tokyo Ueno Station

by Y͡, Miri

Book - 2020

Translated Literature winner - A surreal, devastating story of a homeless ghost who haunts one of Tokyo's busiest train stations. Translated Literature winner - A surreal, devastating story of a homeless ghost who haunts one of Tokyo's busiest train stations. Show less

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King and the Dragonflies

by Callender, Kacen

Book - 2020

Young People's Literature winner - In a small but turbulent Louisiana town, one boy's grief takes him beyond the bayous of his backyard, to learn that there is no right way to be yourself. Young People's Literature winner - In a small but turbulent Louisiana town, one boy's grief takes him beyond the bayous of his backyard, to learn that there is no right way to be yourself. Show less

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Leave the World Behind

A Novel

by Alam, Rumaan

Book - 2020

Fiction nominee - A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong. Fiction nominee - A magnetic novel about two families, strangers to each other, who are forced together on a long weekend gone terribly wrong. Show less

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A Children's Bible

A Novel

by Millet, Lydia

Book - 2020

Fiction nominee - Pulitzer Prize finalist Lydia Millet's sublime new novel follows a group of twelve eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their families at a sprawling lakeside mansion. Fiction nominee - Pulitzer Prize finalist Lydia Millet's sublime new novel follows a group of twelve eerily mature children on a forced vacation with their families at a sprawling lakeside mansion. Show less

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The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

by Philyaw, Deesha

Paperback - 2020

Fiction nominee - The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where Black women and girls dare to follow their desires and pursue a momentary reprieve from being good. Fiction nominee - The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where Black women and girls dare to follow their desires and pursue a momentary reprieve from being good. Show less

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Shuggie Bain

A Novel

by Stuart, Douglas

Book - 2020

Fiction nominee - Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in...Show more Fiction nominee - Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher's policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the city's notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings. Show less

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Unworthy Republic

The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory

by Saunt, Claudio

Book - 2020

Non-Fiction nominee - In telling this gripping story, Saunt shows how the politics and economics of white supremacy lay at the heart of the expulsion of N...Show more Non-Fiction nominee - In telling this gripping story, Saunt shows how the politics and economics of white supremacy lay at the heart of the expulsion of Native Americans; how corruption, greed, and administrative indifference and incompetence contributed to the debacle of its implementation; and how the consequences still resonate today. Show less

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We Are Not Free

by Chee, Traci

Book - 2020

YA nominee - From New York Times best-selling and acclaimed author Traci Chee comes We Are Not Free, the collective account of a tight-knit group of young...Show more YA nominee - From New York Times best-selling and acclaimed author Traci Chee comes We Are Not Free, the collective account of a tight-knit group of young Nisei, second-generation Japanese American citizens, whose lives are irrevocably changed by the mass U.S. incarcerations of World War II. Show less

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Every Body Looking

by Iloh, Candice

Book - 2020

YA nominee - When Ada leaves home for her freshman year at a Historically Black College, it's the first time she's ever been so far from her family--and t...Show more YA nominee - When Ada leaves home for her freshman year at a Historically Black College, it's the first time she's ever been so far from her family--and the first time that she's been able to make her own choices and to seek her place in this new world. Show less

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High as the Waters Rise

A Novel

by Kampmann, Anja

Book - 2020

Translated Literature nominee - This National Book Award finalist is a dazzling, heart-rending story of an oil rig worker whose closest friend goes missing, plunging him into isolation and forcing him to confront his past. Translated Literature nominee - This National Book Award finalist is a dazzling, heart-rending story of an oil rig worker whose closest friend goes missing, plunging him into isolation and forcing him to confront his past. Show less

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The Family Clause

by Khemiri, Jonas Hassen

Book - 2020

Translated Literature nominee - A grandfather who lives abroad returns home to visit his adult children. The son is a failure. The daughter is having a baby with the wrong man. Only the grandfather is perfect--at least, according to himself. Translated Literature nominee - A grandfather who lives abroad returns home to visit his adult children. The son is a failure. The daughter is having a baby with the wrong man. Only the grandfather is perfect--at least, according to himself. Show less

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