National Book Award

The National Book Awards are given to outstanding literature in the United States in several categories, including Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry.

Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel By Jesmyn Ward Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9781501126062
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Published: Scribner - September 5th, 2017

*WINNER of the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD for FICTION
*A TIME MAGAZINE BEST NOVEL OF THE YEAR and A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 OF 2017
*Finalist for the Kirkus Prize
*Finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal

*Finalist for the Aspen Words Literary Prize
*Publishers Weekly Top 10 of 2017
*Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir


Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America By Ibram X. Kendi Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9781568585987
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Published: Bold Type Books - August 15th, 2017

 The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.

Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America -- it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X.


The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner) (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel By Colson Whitehead Cover Image
$27.95
ISBN: 9780385542364
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Published: Doubleday - August 2nd, 2016

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • A magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. Now an original Amazon Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins.


Fortune Smiles: Stories By Adam Johnson Cover Image
$27.00
Currently Unavailable
ISBN: 9780812997477
Published: Random House - August 18th, 2015

The National Book Award-winning story collection from the author of The Orphan Master's Son offers something rare in fiction: a new way of looking at the world.

"MASTERFUL."--The Washington Post "ENTRANCING."--O: The Oprah Magazine "PERCEPTIVE AND BRAVE."--The New York Times


Between the World and Me By Ta-Nehisi Coates Cover Image
$26.00
ISBN: 9780812993547
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Published: One World - July 14th, 2015

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • ONE OF OPRAH’S “BOOKS THAT HELP ME THROUGH” • NOW AN HBO ORIGINAL SPECIAL EVENT


Voyage of the Sable Venus: and Other Poems By Robin Coste Lewis Cover Image
$26.00
Currently Unavailable
ISBN: 9781101875438
Published: Knopf - September 29th, 2015

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

A stunning poetry debut: this meditation on the black female figure throughout time introduces us to a brave and penetrating new voice.
 


Challenger Deep By Neal Shusterman, Brendan Shusterman (Illustrator) Cover Image
$15.99
ISBN: 9780061134142
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Published: Quill Tree Books - April 26th, 2016

National Book Award * Golden Kite Award Winner * Six Starred Reviews

A captivating novel about mental illness that lingers long beyond the last page, Challenger Deep is a heartfelt tour de force by New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman.


Redeployment: National Book Award Winner By Phil Klay Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780143126829
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Published: Penguin Books - February 24th, 2015

Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction

"Redeployment is hilarious, biting, whipsawing and sad. It’s the best thing written so far on what the war did to people’s souls.” —Dexter Filkins, The New York Times Book Review


Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China By Evan Osnos Cover Image
$20.00
Currently Unavailable
ISBN: 9780374535278
Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - May 5th, 2015

Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction finalist
Winner of the 2014 National Book Award in nonfiction


As the Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, Evan Osnos was on the ground in China for years, witness to profound political, economic, and cultural upheaval.


Faithful and Virtuous Night: Poems By Louise Glück Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780374535773
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - September 1st, 2015

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

Winner of the 2014 National Book Award for Poetry

A luminous, seductive new collection from the "fearless" (The New York Times) Pulitzer Prize–winning poet


Brown Girl Dreaming By Jacqueline Woodson Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9780399252518
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Published: Nancy Paulsen Books - August 28th, 2014

A New York Times Bestseller and National Book Award Winner

Jacqueline Woodson, the acclaimed author of
Red at the Bone, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse.
 


The Good Lord Bird (National Book Award Winner): A Novel By James McBride Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9781594632785
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Published: Riverhead Books - August 5th, 2014

Now a Showtime limited series starring Ethan Hawke and Daveed Diggs

Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction


The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America By George Packer Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780374534608
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - March 4th, 2014

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
AN NPR BEST BOOK

Selected by New York Times' critic Dwight Garner as a Favorite Book
A Washington Post Best Political Book
A New Republic Best Book


Incarnadine: Poems By Mary Szybist Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9781555976354
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Published: Graywolf Press - February 5th, 2013

Winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Poetry

* An NPR, Slate, Oregonian, Kansas City Star, Willamette Week, and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * Amazon's Best Book of the Year in Poetry 2013 *


The Thing About Luck By Cynthia Kadohata, Julia Kuo (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Cynthia Kadohata, Julia Kuo (Illustrator)
$8.99
Currently Unavailable
ISBN: 9781442474659
Published: Atheneum Books for Young Readers - June 3rd, 2014

There is bad luck, good luck, and making your own luck—which is exactly what Summer must do to save her family in this winner of the National Book Award by Newbery Medalist Cynthia Kadohata.

Summer knows that kouun means “good luck” in Japanese, and this year her family has none of it.


The Round House: National Book Award Winning Fiction By Louise Erdrich Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9780062065254
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Published: Harper Perennial - September 24th, 2013

Winner of the National Book Award • Washington Post Best Book of the Year • A New York Times Notable Book


Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity By Katherine Boo Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780812979329
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - April 8th, 2014

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE


Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations (Phoenix Poets) By David Ferry Cover Image
$18.00
Currently Unavailable
ISBN: 9780226244884
Published: University of Chicago Press - September 14th, 2012

Winner of the 2012 National Book Award for Poetry.

To read David Ferry’s Bewilderment is to be reminded that poetry of the highest order can be made by the subtlest of means. The passionate nature and originality of Ferry’s prosodic daring works astonishing transformations that take your breath away.


Goblin Secrets By William Alexander Cover Image
$7.99
ISBN: 9781442427273
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Published: Margaret K. McElderry Books - July 23rd, 2013

In the National Book Award–winning Goblin Secrets, a boy joins a theatrical troupe of goblins to find his missing brother.

In the town of Zombay, there is a witch named Graba who has clockwork chicken legs and moves her house around—much like the fairy tale figure of Baba Yaga. Graba takes in stray children, and Rownie is the youngest boy in her household.


Salvage the Bones: A Novel By Jesmyn Ward Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781608196265
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Published: Bloomsbury USA - April 24th, 2012

Winner of the National Book Award
An Atlantic Great American Novel of the Last 100 Years

"A taut, wily novel, smartly plotted and voluptuously written . . . Jesmyn Ward makes beautiful music, plays deftly with her reader’s expectations." —Parul Sehgal, New York Times


The Swerve: How the World Became Modern By Stephen Greenblatt Cover Image
$18.95
ISBN: 9780393343403
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - September 4th, 2012

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction • Winner of the National Book Award • New York Times Bestseller

Renowned scholar Stephen Greenblatt brings the past to vivid life in what is at once a supreme work of scholarship, a literary page-turner, and a thrilling testament to the power of the written word.


Head Off & Split: Poems By Nikky Finney Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9780810152168
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Published: TriQuarterly - January 27th, 2011

Winner, 2011 National Book Award for Poetry
Winner, 2012 GCLS Award for Poetry
Winner, 2012 SIBA Book Award for Poetry
Nominee, 2012 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Poetry

The poems in Nikky Finney's breathtaking new collection Head Off & Split sustain a sensitive and intense dialogue with emblematic figures and events in African A


Inside Out and Back Again: A Newbery Honor Award Winner By Thanhhà Lai Cover Image
$9.99
ISBN: 9780061962790
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Published: HarperCollins - January 2nd, 2013

Inside Out and Back Again is a #1 New York Times bestseller, a Newbery Honor Book, and a winner of the National Book Award!


Lord of Misrule (Vintage Contemporaries) By Jaimy Gordon Cover Image
$16.95
Currently Unavailable
ISBN: 9780307946737
Published: Vintage - March 8th, 2011

A brilliant novel that captures the dusty, dark, and beautiful world of small-time horse racing, where trainers, jockeys, grooms and grifters vie for what little luck is offered at a run-down West Virginia track.
 


Just Kids: A National Book Award Winner By Patti Smith Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9780060936228
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Published: Ecco - November 2nd, 2010

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

“Reading rocker Smith’s account of her relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, it’s hard not to believe in fate. How else to explain the chance encounter that threw them together, allowing both to blossom? Quirky and spellbinding.” -- People


Lighthead: Poems (National Book Award Winner) (Penguin Poets) By Terrance Hayes Cover Image
$19.00
ISBN: 9780143116967
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Published: Penguin Books - March 30th, 2010

Winner of the 2010 National Book Award for Poetry

Watch for the new collection of poetry from Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, coming in June of 2018


Mockingbird By Kathryn Erskine Cover Image
$8.99
Currently Unavailable
ISBN: 9780142417751
Published: Puffin Books - February 3rd, 2011

THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER and ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT NOVELS OF OUR TIME FOR YOUNG READERS