2017 National Book Award (Awarded by National Book Foundation)

Awards List

Fiction

Sing, Unburied, Sing
(Winner)
Jesmyn Ward

Young People's Literature

Far from the Tree
(Winner)
Robin Benway

Fiction

Dark at the Crossing
(Finalist)
Elliot Ackerman

Pachinko
(Finalist)
Min Jin Lee

The Leavers
(Finalist)
Lisa Ko

Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
(Finalist)
Carmen Maria Machado

Young People's Literature

American Street
(Finalist)
Ibi Zoboi

What Girls Are Made of
(Finalist)
Elana K. Arnold

Clayton Byrd Goes Underground
(Finalist)
Rita Williams-Garcia

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
(Finalist)
Erika L. Sanchez

Fiction

Barren Island
(Longlist)
Carol Zoref

Miss Burma
(Longlist)
Charmaine Craig

A Kind of Freedom
(Longlist)
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

Manhattan Beach
(Longlist)
Jennifer Egan

The King Is Always Above the People: Stories
(Longlist)
Daniel Alarcon

Young People's Literature

The Hate U Give
(Longlist)
Angie Thomas

Orphan Island
(Longlist)
Laurel Snyder

You Bring the Distant Near
(Longlist)
Mitali Perkins

All the Wind in the World
(Longlist)
Samantha Mabry

Long Way Down
(Longlist)
Jason Reynolds

Award Categories

Children's

Children's Book: Fiction (hardcover)

Children's Book: Fiction (paperback)

Fiction

Fiction (Hardcover)

Fiction (Paperback)

First Novel

Mystery (hardcover)

Mystery (paperback)

Original Paperback

Picture Book (Hardcover)

Science Fiction (hardcover)

Science Fiction (paperback)

Young People's Literature

Award Years

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