2020 National Book Award Winners

Awards List

Fiction

Interior Chinatown (Winner)
Charles Yu

Feb-2020
/ Literary

Shuggie Bain (Finalist)
Douglas Stuart

Feb-2020
/ Literary

A Children's Bible (Finalist)
Lydia Millet

May-2020
/ Literary

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies (Finalist)
Deesha Philyaw

Sep-2020
/ Literary

Leave the World Behind (Finalist)
Rumaan Alam

Oct-2020
/ Literary

The Index of Self-Destructive Acts (Longlist)
Christopher R. Beha

May-2020
/ Literary

A Burning (Longlist)
Megha Majumdar

Jun-2020
/ Literary

The Vanishing Half (Longlist)
Brit Bennett

Jun-2020
/ Women's Fiction

The Great Offshore Grounds (Longlist)
Vanessa Veselka

Aug-2020
/ General Fiction

If I Had Two Wings (Longlist)
Randall Kenan

Aug-2020
/ General Fiction

Young People's Literature

King and the Dragonflies (Winner)
Kacen Callender

Feb-2020
/ General Fiction

When Stars Are Scattered (Finalist)
Victoria Jamieson; Omar Mohamed

Apr-2020
/ General Fiction

Every Body Looking (Finalist)
Candice Iloh

Sep-2020
/ General Fiction

We Are Not Free (Finalist)
Traci Chee

Sep-2020
/ Historical

The Way Back (Finalist)
Gavriel Savit

Nov-2020
/ Fantasy

Cemetery Boys (Longlist)
Aiden Thomas

Sep-2020
/ General Fiction

Trowbridge Road (Longlist)
Marcella Pixley

Oct-2020
/ General Fiction

Award Categories

Children's

Children's Book: Fiction (hardcover)

Children's Book: Fiction (paperback)

Picture Book (Hardcover)

Science Fiction (hardcover)

Science Fiction (paperback)

Young People's Literature

Award Years

Romance

Mystery/Thriller

Speculative

Younger Readers

2020 National Book Award (Awarded by National Book Foundation)

Awards List

Fiction

Young People's Literature

Award Categories

Award Years