National Book Award2016

Given by National Book Foundation

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Established in 1950, the National Book Award is an American literary prize given to writers by writers and administered by the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization. Each year, the show more Foundation selects a total of twenty Judges, including five in each of the four Award categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People’s Literature. Judges are published writers who are known to be doing great work in their genre or field, and in some cases, are past NBA Finalists or Winners. One of the five Judges on each panel is selected as the panel chair. This person acts as the voice of the panel and the liaison to the Foundation. The Foundation staff takes no part in the Judges’ deliberations, except to verify a submission’s eligibility. show less
Stages:
All, Winner (400), Finalist (1,801), Longlist (500)
Categories:
All, Arts and Letters (57), Autobiography (Hardcover) (3), Autobiography (Paperback) (1), Autobiography/Biography (Hardcover) (12), Autobiography/Biography (Paperback) (15), Biography (8), Biography (Hardcover) (2), Biography (Paperback) (4), Biography and Autobiography (3), Children's Books (14), Children's Books (Hardcover) (4), Children's Books (Paperback) (4), Children's Books, Fiction (Hardcover) (10), Children's Books, Fiction (Paperback) (8), Children's Books, Nonfiction (10), Children's Books, Nonfiction (Hardcover) (4), Children's Books, Picture Books (Hardcover) (5), Children's Books, Picture Books (Paperback) (6), Children's Fiction (Hardcover) (4), Children's Fiction (Paperback) (5), Children's Literature (10), Children's Picture Books (Hardcover) (5), Children's Picture Books (Paperback) (5), Contemporary Affairs (9), Contemporary Thought (4), Current Interest (Hardcover) (4), Current Interest (Paperback) (5), Fiction (477), Fiction (Hardcover) (14), Fiction (Paperback) (16), First Novel (19), First Work of Fiction (3), General Nonfiction (Hardcover) (19), General Nonfiction (Paperback) (17), General Reference Books (Hardcover) (3), General Reference Books (Paperback) (5), Hardcover (2), History (9), History (Hardcover) (21), History (Paperback) (12), History and Biography (39), Most Distinguished Novel (1), Most Original Book (1), Mystery (Hardcover) (5), Mystery (Paperback) (5), Nonfiction (407), Original Paperback (5), Paperback (4), Philosophy and Religion (10), Poetry (331), Religion/Inspiration (Hardcover) (5), Religion/Inspiration (Paperback) (3), Science (Hardcover) (18), Science (Paperback) (18), Science Fiction (Hardcover) (9), Science Fiction (Paperback) (1), Science, Philosophy, and Religion (18), The Sciences (16), Translated Literature (58), Translation (54), Western (4), Young People's Literature (197), No Category (4)
Years:
All, 2023 (50), 2022 (50), 2021 (49), 2020 (50), 2019 (49), 2018 (50), 2017 (40), 2016 (40), 2015 (40), 2014 (40), 2013 (42), 2012 (20), 2011 (20), 2010 (20), 2009 (20), 2008 (20), 2007 (16), 2006 (20), 2005 (20), 2004 (20), 2003 (20), 2002 (20), 2001 (20), 2000 (20), 1999 (20), 1998 (20), 1997 (20), 1996 (20), 1995 (15), 1994 (15), 1993 (15), 1992 (15), 1991 (15), 1990 (10), 1989 (9), 1988 (9), 1987 (10), 1986 (8), 1985 (9), 1983 (90), 1982 (79), 1981 (67), 1980 (105), 1979 (13), 1978 (9), 1977 (15), 1976 (12), 1975 (25), 1974 (28), 1973 (25), 1972 (31), 1971 (32), 1970 (31), 1969 (30), 1968 (24), 1967 (29), 1966 (19), 1965 (22), 1964 (25), 1963 (24), 1962 (36), 1961 (35), 1960 (40), 1959 (25), 1958 (29), 1957 (41), 1956 (26), 1955 (29), 1954 (3), 1953 (33), 1952 (32), 1951 (3), 1950 (8), 1936 (2), 1935 (1)
Announced:
November 2023: Winner2023 Recent

Winner 4

WorkCategoryYear
The Underground Railroad by Colson WhiteheadFiction2016
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. KendiNonfiction2016
The Performance of Becoming Human by Daniel BorzutzkyPoetry2016
March: Book Three by John LewisYoung People's Literature2016

Finalist 20

WorkCategoryYear
The Underground Railroad by Colson WhiteheadFiction2016
The Throwback Special by Chris BachelderFiction2016
News of the World by Paulette JilesFiction2016
The Association of Small Bombs by Karan MahajanFiction2016
Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline WoodsonFiction2016
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. KendiNonfiction2016
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell HochschildNonfiction2016
Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War by Viet Thanh NguyenNonfiction2016
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America by Andrés ReséndezNonfiction2016
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann ThompsonNonfiction2016
The Performance of Becoming Human by Daniel BorzutzkyPoetry2016
Collected Poems: 1974-2004 by Rita DovePoetry2016
Archeophonics (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Peter GizziPoetry2016
The Abridged History of Rainfall (McSweeney's Poetry Series) by Jay HoplerPoetry2016
Look: Poems by Solmaz SharifPoetry2016
March: Book Three by John LewisYoung People's Literature2016
Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamilloYoung People's Literature2016
When the Sea Turned to Silver by Grace LinYoung People's Literature2016
Ghost by Jason ReynoldsYoung People's Literature2016
The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola YoonYoung People's Literature2016

Longlist 40

WorkCategoryYear
The Underground Railroad by Colson WhiteheadFiction2016
The Throwback Special by Chris BachelderFiction2016
News of the World by Paulette JilesFiction2016
The Association of Small Bombs by Karan MahajanFiction2016
Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline WoodsonFiction2016
What Belongs to You by Garth GreenwellFiction2016
Imagine Me Gone by Adam HaslettFiction2016
The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzieFiction2016
Sweet Lamb of Heaven by Lydia MilletFiction2016
Miss Jane by Brad WatsonFiction2016
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. KendiNonfiction2016
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell HochschildNonfiction2016
Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War by Viet Thanh NguyenNonfiction2016
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America by Andrés ReséndezNonfiction2016
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann ThompsonNonfiction2016
America's War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History by Andrew BacevichNonfiction2016
The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice by Patricia Bell-ScottNonfiction2016
Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck by Adam CohenNonfiction2016
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O'NeilNonfiction2016
The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition by Manisha SinhaNonfiction2016
The Performance of Becoming Human by Daniel BorzutzkyPoetry2016
Collected Poems: 1974-2004 by Rita DovePoetry2016
Archeophonics (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Peter GizziPoetry2016
The Abridged History of Rainfall (McSweeney's Poetry Series) by Jay HoplerPoetry2016
Look: Poems by Solmaz SharifPoetry2016
The Selected Poems of Donald Hall by Donald HallPoetry2016
Bestiary: Poems by Donika KellyPoetry2016
World of Made and Unmade by Jane MeadPoetry2016
Blue Laws: Selected and Uncollected Poems, 1995-2015 by Kevin YoungPoetry2016
Blackacre: Poems by Monica YounPoetry2016
March: Book Three by John LewisYoung People's Literature2016
Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamilloYoung People's Literature2016
When the Sea Turned to Silver by Grace LinYoung People's Literature2016
Ghost by Jason ReynoldsYoung People's Literature2016
The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola YoonYoung People's Literature2016
Booked by Kwame AlexanderYoung People's Literature2016
When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemoreYoung People's Literature2016
Burn Baby Burn by Meg MedinaYoung People's Literature2016
Pax by Sara PennypackerYoung People's Literature2016
Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor's Story by Caren StelsonYoung People's Literature2016

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