National Book Award winner Elizabeth Acevedo returns to YA with “Anger Is Only a Shadow”—read an excerpt! (Exclusive)

The author’s first YA entry in six years is inspired by her time leading poetry workshops for girls at a juvenile detention center ...
The New Yorker

The New Yorker’s Coverage of the 2026 National Book Award Fiction Nominees

All week, The New Yorker has been exclusively announcing the National Book Award longlists. Today, the fiction list has ...

2026 National Book Award longlists announced for nonfiction, poetry and young people’s literature

Thirty books across nonfiction, poetry and young people’s literature have reached the 2026 National Book Award longlists, highlighting fresh voices, returning contenders and bold literary ...
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National Book Awards

2025 National Book Award Winner for Non-Fiction: "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This" by Omar EI Akkad… 2024 National Book Award Winner for Non-Fiction: "Soldiers and Kings" by Jason ...
Literary Hub

Here’s the longlist for the 2026 National Book Award for Fiction.

Today, the National Book Foundation announced the longlist for the 2026 National Book Award for Fiction. These ten titles were selected from a pool of 451 books submitted for consideration by ...

Salman Rushdie will receive a National Book Award medal for lifetime achievement

Salman Rushdie, a U.S. citizen for the past decade, is set to receive a prestigious National Book Award medal for lifetime ...
Taipei Times

Taiwan novel makes National Book Award longlist

To the East of the East (東方之東) has been longlisted for the US-based National Book Award for Translated Literature for this ...

Salman Rushdie to Receive National Book Foundation’s 2026 Lifetime Achievement Award

Salman Rushdie will be honored with the 2026 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters at the National Book ...