Finalists have been selected for the 2024 National Book Awards. The five category winners will be announced at the 75th National Book Awards Ceremony & Benefit Dinner in New York City on November 20. The winners receive $10,000, a bronze medal, and statue; finalists get $1,000 and a bronze medal. Winners and finalists in the translated literature category split the prize evenly between author and translator. This year's finalists are:
Fiction
Ghostroots by 'Pemi Aguda (Norton)
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (Knopf)
James by Percival Everett (Doubleday)
All Fours by Miranda July (Riverhead Books)
My Friends by Hisham Matar (Random House)
Nonfiction
Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling by Jason De León (Viking Books)
Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church by Eliza Griswold (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia by Kate Manne (Crown)
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie (Random House)
Whiskey Tender by Deborah Jackson Taffa (Harper)
Poetry
Wrong Norma by Anne Carson (New Directions)
[…] by Fady Joudah (Milkweed Editions)
mother by m.s. RedCherries (Penguin Books)
Modern Poetry by Diane Seuss (Graywolf Press)
Something About Living by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha (University of Akron Press)
Translated Literature
The Book Censor's Library by Bothayna Al-Essa, translated from the Arabic by Ranya Abdelrahman & Sawad Hussain (Restless Books)
Ædnan by Linnea Axelsson, translated from the Swedish by Saskia Vogel (Knopf)
The Villain's Dance by Fiston Mwanza Mujila, translated from the French by Roland Glasser (Deep Vellum)
Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated from the Mandarin Chinese by Lin King (Graywolf Press)
Where the Wind Calls Home by Samar Yazbek, translated from the Arabic by Leri Price (World Editions)
Young People's Literature
Buffalo Dreamer by Violet Duncan (Nancy Paulsen Books)
The Great Cool Ranch Dorito in the Sky by Josh Galarza (Holt Books for Young Readers)
The First State of Being by Erin Entrada Kelly (Greenwillow Books)
Kareem Between by Shifa Saltagi Safadi (Putnam Books for Young Readers)
The Unboxing of a Black Girl by Angela Shanté (Page Street Publishing)