National Book Awards finalists announced – See which authors made the list Clare Mulroy, USA TODAYOctober 7, 2025 at 11:15 PM 0 A crisp fall wind in the air means it's almost time for the National Book Awards, and this year's finalist list is here. Twentyfive finalists, announced Oct.
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Clare Mulroy, USA TODAYOctober 7, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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A crisp fall wind in the air means it's almost time for the National Book Awards, and this year's finalist list is here.
Twenty-five finalists, announced Oct. 7, will vie for the prize in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature and young people's literature. Winners of the prestigious literary prize take home $10,000, a bronze medal and a statue. The ceremony will livestream from New York City on Wednesday, Nov. 19.
In addition to the five prizes, the National Book Foundation will honor acclaimed writers George Saunders with the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and Roxane Gay with the Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community.
Percival Everett won last year's coveted fiction prize for his Huckleberry Finn retelling "James." Who's in the running this year?
National Book Award fiction finalists -
"The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)" by Rabih Alameddine
"A Guardian and a Thief" by Megha Majumdar
"The Antidote" by Karen Russell
"North Sun: Or, the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther" by Ethan Rutherford
"Palaver" by Bryan Washington
National Book Award nonfiction finalists -
"One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This" by Omar El Akkad
"Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy" by Julia Ioffe
"Things in Nature Merely Grow" by Yiyun Li
"Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care" by Claudia Rowe
"When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World" by Jordan Thomas
National Book Award poetry finalists -
"The New Economy" by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
"Becoming Ghost" by Cathy Linh Che
"Scorched Earth" by Tiana Clark
"I Do Know Some Things" by Richard Siken
"The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems" by Patricia Smith
National Book Award translated literature finalists -
"On the Calculation of Volume (Book III)" by Solvej Balle, translated from Danish by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell
"We Are Green and Trembling" by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, translated from Spanish by Robin Myers
"The Remembered Soldier" by Anjet Daanje, translated from Dutch by David McKay
"We Computers: A Ghazal Novel" by Hamid Ismailov, translated from Uzbek by Shelley Fairweather-Vega
"Sad Tiger" by Neige Sinno, translated from French by Natasha Lehrer
National Book Award young people's literature finalists -
"A World Worth Saving" by Kyle Lukoff
"The Leaving Room" by Amber McBride
"The Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story" by Daniel Nayeri
"Truth Is" by Hannah V. Sawyerr
"(S)Kin" by Ibi Zoboi
Clare Mulroy is USA TODAY's Books Reporter, where she covers buzzy releases, chats with authors and dives into the culture of reading. Find her on Instagram, subscribe to our weekly Books newsletter or tell her what you're reading at [email protected].
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