2025 National Book Award Finalists
https://www.nationalbook.org/awards2025/
created by JanesManyTrades
last updated November, 2025
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Ibi Zoboi
Truth Is
Hannah V. Sawyerr
The Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story
Daniel Nayeri
The Leaving Room
Amber McBride
A World Worth Saving
Kyle Lukoff
Sad Tiger
Neige Sinno
We Computers: A Ghazal Novel
Hamid Ismailov
The Remembered Soldier
Anjet Daanje
We Are Green and Trembling
Gabriela CabezĂłn CĂĄmara
On the Calculation of Volume, Book III
Solvej Balle
The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems
Patricia Smith
I Do Know Some Things
Richard Siken
Scorched Earth: Poems
Tiana Clark
Becoming Ghost: Poetry
Cathy Linh Che
The New Economy
Gabrielle Calvocoressi
When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World
Jordan Thomas
Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care
Claudia Rowe
Things in Nature Merely Grow
Yiyun Li
Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia,from Revolution to Autocracy
Julia Ioffe
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad
North Sun: Or, The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther
Ethan Rutherford
A Guardian and a Thief
Megha Majumdar
The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)
Rabih Alameddine
Palaver: A Novel
Bryan Washington
The Antidote
Karen Russell
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