Last month we brought you the longlists in each category for the National Book Awards 2018, and now it’s time for the finalists! There are five finalists in each category, making 25 books in all, with an extra category added this year for translated literature too.
The winners for each category will be announced on November 14th, but for now let’s take a look at those finalists and the books that made the final cut.
From the Fiction Longlist, the finalists are:
From the Nonfiction Longlist, the finalists are:
From the Poetry Longlist, the finalists are:
From the Translated Longlist, the finalists are:
From the Young People’s Literature Longlist, the finalists are:
December 28, 2023
The For Reading Addicts Book of the Year 2023
Another year comes to a close, our eleventh running For Reading Addicts, and for the…
January 7, 2022
Robert Maxwell Biography Among Costa Book Award Winners
A biography of Robert Maxwell, father of convicted sex-trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, has won a Costa…
November 9, 2021
Female winner of 1m Euro literary prize turns out to be three men
A woman who won a €1 million literary prize has turned out to actually be…
November 6, 2021
Marcus Rashford Named FutureBook Person of the Year
Marcus Rashford MBE has been named FutureBook Person of the Year, and is the fourth…
October 12, 2021
2021 Nobel Prize Winner Announced
The winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in literature has been announced as Abdulrazak Gurnah,…
September 29, 2021
2021 Kindle Storyteller Shortlist Announced!
The Kindle Storyteller Award – which celebrates newly-published independent books by authors across any genre…