Le jury américain des National Book Awards a dévoilé, tout au long de la semaine, ses sélections pour les catégories "Fiction", "Non Fiction", "Jeunesse" et "Poésie". La National Book Foundation annoncera sa deuxième sélection le 4 octobre. Les lauréats des prestigieux prix littéraires américains seront récompensés le 15 novembre, lors d’une grande soirée de gala.
Les 10 romans retenus :
- Dark at the Crossing d’Elliot Ackerman (Knopf / Penguin Random House)
- The King Is Always Above the People de Daniel Alarcón (Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House)
- Miss Burma de Charmaine Craig (Grove Press / Grove Atlantic)
- Manhattan Beach de Jennifer Egan (Scribner / Simon & Schuster)
- The Leavers de Lisa Ko (Algonquin Books / Workman Publishing)
- Pachinko de Min Jin Lee (Grand Central Publishing / Hachette Book Group)
- Her Body and Other Parties de Carmen Maria Machado (Graywolf Press)
- A Kind of Freedom de Margaret Wilkerson Sexton (Counterpoint Press)
- Sing, Unburied, Sing de Jesmyn Ward (Scribner / Simon & Schuster)
- Barren Island de Carol Zoref (New Issues Poetry & Prose)
Les 10 essais et documents en lice :
- Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge d’Erica Armstrong Dunbar (Atria / 37 INK / Simon & Schuster)
- The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America de Frances FitzGerald (Simon & Schuster)
- Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America de James Forman, Jr. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux / Macmillan Publishers)
- The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia de Masha Gessen (Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House)
- Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI de David Grann (Doubleday / Penguin Random House)
- No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need de Naomi Klein (Haymarket Books)
- Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America de Nancy MacLean (Viking / Penguin Random House)
- The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America de Richard Rothstein (Liveright / W. W. Norton & Company)
- The Blood of Emmett Till de Timothy B. Tyson (Simon & Schuster)
- Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News de Kevin Young (Graywolf Press)
Les 10 romans jeunesses sélectionnés :
- What Girls Are Made Of d’Elana K. Arnold (Carolrhoda Lab / Lerner Publishing Group)
- Far from the Tree de Robin Benway (HarperTeen / HarperCollins Publishers)
- All the Wind in the World de Samantha Mabry (Algonquin Young Readers / Workman Publishing Company)
- You Bring the Distant Near de Mitali Perkins (Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers / Macmillan Publishers)
- Long Way Down de Jason Reynolds (Atheneum / Caitlyn Dlouhy Books / Simon & Schuster)
- I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter d’Erika L. Sánchez (Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers / Penguin Random House)
- Orphan Island de Laurel Snyder (Walden Pond Press / HarperCollins Publishers)
- The Hate U Give d’Angie Thomas (Balzer + Bray / HarperCollins Publishers)
- Clayton Byrd Goes Underground de Rita Williams-Garcia (Amistad / HarperCollins Publishers)
- American Street d’Ibi Zoboi (Balzer + Bray / HarperCollins Publishers)
Les 10 recueils de poésie en compétition :
- Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 de Frank Bidart (Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers)
- When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities de Chen Chen (BOA Editions, Ltd.)
- The Book of Endings de Leslie Harrison (University of Akron Press)
- Magdalene de Marie Howe (W. W. Norton & Company)
- Where Now de Laura Kasischke (Copper Canyon Press)
- WHEREAS de Layli Long Soldier (Graywolf Press)
- In the Language of My Captor de Shane McCrae (Wesleyan University Press)
- Square Inch Hours de Sherod Santos (W. W. Norton & Company)
- Don’t Call Us Dead de Danez Smith (Graywolf Press)
- Afterland de Mai Der Vang (Graywolf Press)