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:
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