The National Book Awards shortlists — for fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people's literature — were announced October 15 on Morning Edition by Mitchell Kaplan, co-founder of Miami Book Fair International and former president of the American Booksellers Association. On November 18, finalists for the National Book Awards read from their nominated works at The New School in New York City. The National Book Foundation will announce the winners Wednesday night. Read more about each of the finalists — and hear the authors read from their works — below.
Fiction
Listen to Anthony Doerr read from 'All the Light We Cannot See'
Listen to Rabih Alameddine read from ' An Unnecessary Woman'
Listen to Ayana Mathis read from Marilynne Robinson's 'Lila'
Listen to Phil Klay read from 'Redeployment'
Listen to Emily St. John Mandel read from 'Station Eleven'
Nonfiction
Listen to Evan Osnos read from 'Age of Ambition'
Listen to Roz Chast read from 'Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant'
Listen to Jonathan Weiner read from E.O. Wilson's 'The Meaning of Human Existence'
Listen to Anand Gopal read from 'No Good Men Among the Living'
Listen to John Lahr read from 'Tennessee Williams'
Poetry
Listen to Claudia Rankine read from 'Citizen'
Listen to Louise Glück read from 'Faithful and Virtuous Night'
Listen to Fred Moten read from 'The Feel Trio'
Listen to Fanny Howe read from 'Second Childhood'
Listen to Maureen N. McLane read from 'This Blue'
Young People's Literature
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Listen to Jacqueline Woodson read from 'Brown Girl Dreaming'
Listen to John Corey Whaley read from 'Noggin'
Listen to Steve Sheinkin read from 'The Port Chicago 50'
Listen to Deborah Wiles read from 'Revolution'
Listen to Eliot Schrefer read from 'Threatened'