Finalists named for National Book Awards

The 20 finalists for the 2016 National Book Awards in fiction, non-fiction, young people’s literature and poetry were announced Thursday. The winners of the prestigious prize will be named at a ceremony in New York on Nov. 16.

Fiction

Chris Bachelder, The Throwback Special (Norton)

Paulette Jiles, News of the World (William Morrow)

Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs (Viking)

Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad  (Doubleday)

Jacqueline Woodson, Another Brooklyn  (Amistad)

Non-fiction

Arlie Russell Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right (The New Press)

Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Nation Books)

Viet Thanh Nguyen, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (Harvard University Press)

Andrés Reséndez, The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Heather Ann Thompson, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Pantheon)

Young People’s Literature

Kate DiCamillo, Raymie Nightingale (Candlewick)

John Lewis, Andrew Aydin & Nate Powell, March: Book Three (Top Shelf)

Grace Lin, When the Sea Turned to Silver (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)

Jason Reynolds, Ghost (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)

Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star (Delacorte)

Poetry

Daniel Borzutzky, The Performance of Becoming Human (Brooklyn Arts Press)

Rita Dove, Collected Poems 1974-2004 (Norton)

Peter Gizzi, Archeophonics (Wesleyan University Press)

Jay Hopler, The Abridged History of Rainfall (McSweeney’s)

Solmaz Sharif, Look (Graywolf)