2016 National Book Awards
Fiction
Longlist:
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Chris Bachelder, The Throwback Special (W. W. Norton & Company)
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Garth Greenwell, What Belongs to You (Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Macmillan)
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Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone (Little, Brown and Company/Hachette Book Group)
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Paulette Jiles, News of the World (William Morrow/HarperCollinsPublishers)
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Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs (Viking Books/Penguin Random House)
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Elizabeth McKenzie, The Portable Veblen (Penguin Press/Penguin Random House)
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Lydia Millet, Sweet Lamb of Heaven (W. W. Norton & Company)
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Brad Watson, Miss Jane (W. W. Norton & Company)
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Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad (Doubleday/Penguin Random House)
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Jacqueline Woodson, Another Brooklyn (Amistad/HarperCollinsPublishers)
FICTION JUDGES:
James English, Karen Joy Fowler, T. Geronimo Johnson, Julie Otsuka, Jesmyn Ward
Nonfiction
Longlist:
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Andrew J. Bacevich, America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History
(Random House/Penguin Random House) -
Patricia Bell-Scott, The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice (Alfred A. Knopf /Penguin Random House)
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Adam Cohen, Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck
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Arlie Russell Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
(The New Press)
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Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
(Nation Books)
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Viet Thanh Nguyen, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
(Harvard University Press)
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Cathy O’Neil, Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
(Crown Publishing Group/Penguin Random House)
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Andrés Reséndez, The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
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Manisha Sinha, The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition
(Yale University Press) -
Heather Ann Thompson, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
(Pantheon Books/Penguin Random House)
NONFICTION JUDGES:
Cynthia Barnett, Masha Gessen, Greg Grandin, Ronald Rosbottom
Poetry
Longlist:
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Daniel Borzutzky, The Performance of Becoming Human (Brooklyn Arts Press)
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Rita Dove, Collected Poems 1974 – 2004 (W. W. Norton & Company)
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Peter Gizzi, Archeophonics (Wesleyan University Press)
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Donald Hall, The Selected Poems of Donald Hall (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
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Jay Hopler, The Abridged History of Rainfall (McSweeney’s)
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Donika Kelly, Bestiary (Graywolf Press)
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Jane Mead, World of Made and Unmade (Alice James Books)
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Solmaz Sharif, Look (Graywolf Press)
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Monica Youn, Blackacre (Graywolf Press)
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Kevin Young, Blue Laws (Alfred A. Knopf)
POETRY JUDGES:
Mark Bibbins, Jericho Brown, Katie Ford, Joy Harjo, Tree Swenson
Young People's Literature
Longlist:
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Kwame Alexander, Booked (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
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Kate DiCamillo, Raymie Nightingale (Candlewick Press)
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John Lewis, Andrew Aydin & Nate Powell (Artist), March: Book Three (Top Shelf)
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Grace Lin, When the Sea Turned to Silver (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
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Anna-Marie McLemore, When the Moon Was Ours (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press)
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Meg Medina, Burn Baby Burn (Candlewick Press)
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Sara Pennypacker & Jon Klassen (Illustrator), Pax (Balzer & Bray/HarperCollins)
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Jason Reynolds, Ghost (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing)
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Caren Stelson, Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor’s Story (Carolrhoda Books/Lerner Publishing Group)
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Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star (Delacorte Press/Penguin Random House)
YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE JUDGES:
William Alexander, Valerie Lewis, Ellen Oh, Katherine Paterson, Laura Ruby
