The National Book Award begins with 1,500 books, submitted by publishers around the United States.  From these, a long list is developed–on which we gleefully reported some weeks ago.  And last week, the finalists for the 2017 National Book Award were announced.

Additionally, it was announced that Annie Proulx, who has already won a National Book Award for The Shipping News, will be honored this year with the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the National Book Award’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

The Free For All would like to congratulate the short-listed nominees–and we’ll be eagerly celebrating the eventual winners of the National Book Award when the are announced on November 15 in New York City!

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Fiction

Elliot Ackerman: Dark at the Crossing
Lisa Ko: The Leavers
Min Jin Lee: Pachinko
Carmen Maria Machado: Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
Jesmyn Ward: Sing, Unburied, Sing

Nonfiction

Erica Armstrong Dunbar: Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
Frances FitzGerald: The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America
Masha Gessen: The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
David Grann: Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Nancy MacLean: Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America