The ten contenders for the National Book Award for the categories of Translated Literature, Nonfiction, Young People's Literature and Fiction.
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last updated September, 2026
Mad Eden: A Novel
Morgan Thomas
The Renovation
Kenan Orhan
Passengers
Alexander Maksik
Beginning Middle End: A Novel
Valeria Luiselli
The Disappearers
Marlon James
Python's Kiss
Louise Erdrich
Pretend You're Dead and I Carry You: A Novel
Julián Delgado Lopera
Dèy
Edwidge Danticat
Red Ants: Stories
Kimberly Blaeser
Paradiso 17: A Novel
Hannah Lillith Assadi
Clothes to Make You Smile: Patrick Kelly Designs His Dreams
Eric Darnell Pritchard
Mother Tongue: A Memoir of Family, Deafness and Identity
Sara Nović
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
Álvaro Enrigue
The Disappearing Act
Maria Stepanova
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