2021 National Book Award Winners

Awards List

Fiction

Hell of a Book (Winner)
Jason Mott

Jul-2021
/ General Fiction

Young People's Literature

Last Night at the Telegraph Club (Winner)
Malinda Lo

Jan-2021
/ General Fiction

Fiction

The Prophets (Finalist)
Robert Jones Jr.

Jan-2021
/ Literary

Zorrie (Finalist)
Laird Hunt

Feb-2021
/ Women's Fiction

Matrix (Finalist)
Lauren Groff

Sep-2021
/ Women's Fiction

Cloud Cuckoo Land (Finalist)
Anthony Doerr

Oct-2021
/ Literary

Young People's Literature

Too Bright to See (Finalist)
Kyle Lukoff

Apr-2021
/ General Fiction

The Legend of Auntie Po (Finalist)
Shing Yin Khor

Jun-2021
/ General Fiction

Fiction

Abundance (Longlist)
Jakob Guanzon

Mar-2021
/ Literary

The Souvenir Museum (Longlist)
Elizabeth McCracken

Apr-2021
/ General Fiction

Intimacies (Longlist)
Katie Kitamura

Jul-2021
/ Thriller

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois (Longlist)
Honoree Fanonne Jeffers

Aug-2021
/ Women's Fiction

Bewilderment (Longlist)
Richard Powers

Sep-2021
/ Literary

Young People's Literature

Home Is Not a Country (Longlist)
Safia Elhillo

Mar-2021
/ General Fiction

The Mirror Season (Longlist)
Anna-Marie McLemore

Mar-2021
/ Contemporary Romance

A Snake Falls to Earth (Longlist)
Darcie Little Badger

Nov-2021
/ Fantasy

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

2021 National Book Award (Awarded by National Book Foundation)

Awards List

Fiction

Young People's Literature

Fiction

Young People's Literature

Fiction

Young People's Literature

Award Categories

Award Years