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National Book Awards 2024 - Fiction & Nonfiction

The National Book Awards were established in 1950 to celebrate the best writing in the United States. Since 1989, the Awards have been overseen by the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to celebrate the best literature published in the United States, expand its audience, and ensure that books have a prominent place in our culture. Read on for this year's fiction & nonfiction honorees: the longlists, the finalists, and of course, the winners!

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21 items

  • Winner, Fiction
    Book, 2024New York : Doubleday, [2024]. — Everett, Percival
  • Finalist, Fiction
    Book, 2024New York, NY : W.W. Norton, 2024. — Aguda, 'Pemi
  • Finalist, Fiction
    Book, 2024New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2024. — Akbar, Kaveh
  • Finalist, Fiction
    Book, 2024New York : Riverhead Books, 2024. — July, Miranda
  • Finalist, Fiction
    Book, 2024New York : Random House, 2024. — Matar, Hisham
  • Longlist, Fiction
    Book, 2024New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2024. — ANTHONY 2024
  • Longlist, Fiction
    Book, 2024New York : Scribner, 2024. — Kushner, Rachel
  • Longlist, Fiction
    Book, 2024San Francisco : McSweeney's, [2024]. — Sax, Sam
  • Longlist, Fiction
    Book, 2024New York : William Morrow & Co., 2024. — TULATHIM 2024
  • Soldiers and Kings

    Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling

    De León, Jason, 1977-
    Winner, Nonfiction
    Book, 2024[New York] : Viking, [2024]. — 364.1372 DE LEON 2024
  • Circle of Hope

    a Reckoning With Love, Power, and Justice in An American Church

    Griswold, Eliza, 1973-
    Finalist, Nonfiction
    Book, 2024New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024. — 289.95 GRISWOLD 2024
  • Unshrinking

    How to Face Fatphobia

    Manne, Kate,
    Finalist, Nonfiction
    Book, 2024New York : Crown, 2024. — 305.908 MANNE 2024
  • Knife

    Meditations After An Attempted Murder

    Rushdie, Salman,
    Finalist, Nonfiction
    Book, 2024New York : Random House, [2024] — 364.15 23
  • Finalist, Nonfiction
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024]. — B TAFFA TAFFA 2024
  • Longlist, Nonfiction
    Book, 2024New York : Random House, [2024]. — 796.323 ABDURRAQ 2024
  • Magical/realism

    Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders

    Villarreal, Vanessa Angélica,
    Longlist, Nonfiction
    Book, 2024New York : Tiny Reparations Books, [2024]. — 814.6 VILLARRE 2024
  • Our Moon

    How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are

    Boyle, Rebecca (Rebecca B.),
    Longlist, Nonfiction
    Book, 2024New York : Random House, [2024]. — 523.3 BOYLE 2024
  • The War Below

    Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives

    Scheyder, Ernest,
    Longlist, Nonfiction
    Book, 2024New York : One Signal Publishers/Atria, 2024. — 333.816 SCHEYDER 2024