Selected from these lists of five finalists in each category, the winners were named at the annual National Book Awards ceremony on November 14, 2018. (Indicated in red.) Please click on the book titles to discover more about the books.
FICTION
A Lucky Man Jamel Brinkley
Florida Lauren Groff
Where the Dead Sit Talking Brandon Hobson
The Great Believers Rebecca Makkai
The Friend Sigrid Nunez
NONFICTION
The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation Colin G. Calloway
American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic Victoria Johnson
Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth Sarah Smarsh
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke Jeffrey C. Stewart
We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights Adam Winkler
YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE
The Poet X Elizabeth Acevedo
The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin
The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle Leslie Connor
The Journey of Little Charlie Christopher Paul Curtis
Hey, Kiddo Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Congratulations to all the finalists and winners! 🙂
Click here to browse all of the 2018 National Book Award Finalists.