The ten contenders for the National Book Award for the categories of Translated Literature, Nonfiction, Young People's Literature and Fiction (pending as of 9/16).
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Clothes to Make You Smile: Patrick Kelly Designs His Dreams
Eric Darnell Pritchard
Mother Tongue: A Memoir of Family, Deafness and Identity
Sara NoviÄ
Your Presence is a Danger to Your Life Voices from Gaza
Samar Yazbek
Huna: A Memoir of Revolution, Prison, and Becoming
Abdelrahman ElGendy
The Midnight Special: The Secret Prison History of American Music
Colin Asher
Pure Men
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
Night of a Thousand Hells
Intan Paramaditha
To the East of the East
Ping Lu
Seasons of Fury: Four Families and the Rise of Islamophobia in America
Rozina Ali
Eden at Dawn
Karim Kattan
Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground
Zayd Ayers Dohrn
The Evolution of Fire: Essays on Crisis and Becoming
Angela Pelster
A Dead White: An Argument Against White Paint
Wendy S Walters
The Fight of Our Lives: AIDS in America
David Levithan
Spawning Season: An Experiment in Queer Parenthood
Joseph Osmundson
That Which Feeds Us
Keala Kendall
My Dreadful Body
Egana Djabbarova
Let the Poets Govern: A Declaration of Freedom
Camonghne Felix
Now I Surrender
Ălvaro Enrigue
The Disappearing Act
Maria Stepanova
Holloway
Elana K. Arnold
The War Within a War: The Black Struggle in Vietnam and at Home
Wil Haygood
The Celestial Seas
T.A. Chan
When Tomorrow Burns
Tae Keller
The School of Night
Karl Ove KnausgÄrd
The Free Verse Society
Delali Adjoa
The Moon Without Stars
Chanel Miller
Centroeuropa
Vicente Luis Mora
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