National Book Award Long Lists

The National Book Award Finalists are announced this Wednesday! Take a look at the titles that have made it to the long list this year. Now is your chance to take a best guess at which titles will make it to the finalists list. 

Notice something new? The NBA has debuted a category for literature in translation. Yippee! Find many staff favorites below:

FICTION

A Lucky Man: Stories Cover Image

A Lucky Man: Stories (Hardcover)

By Jamel Brinkley
$26.00
ISBN: 9781555978051
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Published: Graywolf Press - May 1st, 2018
Gun Love: A Novel Cover Image

Gun Love: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Jennifer Clement
$25.00
ISBN: 9781524761684
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Published: Hogarth - March 6th, 2018
Florida Cover Image

Florida (Hardcover)

By Lauren Groff
$27.00
ISBN: 9781594634512
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Published: Riverhead Books - June 5th, 2018
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The Boatbuilder (Paperback)

By Daniel Gumbiner
$18.00
ISBN: 9781944211554
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Published: McSweeney's - May 15th, 2018
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Where the Dead Sit Talking (Hardcover)

By Brandon Hobson
$25.00
ISBN: 9781616958879
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Published: Soho Press - February 20th, 2018
An American Marriage (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel Cover Image

An American Marriage (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel (Hardcover)

By Tayari Jones
$26.95
ISBN: 9781616208776
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Published: Algonquin Books - February 6th, 2018
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The Great Believers (Hardcover)

By Rebecca Makkai
$27.00
ISBN: 9780735223523
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Published: Viking - June 19th, 2018
The Friend: A Novel Cover Image

The Friend: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Sigrid Nunez
$25.00
ISBN: 9780735219441
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Published: Riverhead Books - February 6th, 2018
There There: A novel Cover Image

There There: A novel (Hardcover)

By Tommy Orange
$25.95
ISBN: 9780525520375
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Published: Knopf - June 5th, 2018
Heads of the Colored People: Stories Cover Image

Heads of the Colored People: Stories (Hardcover)

By Nafissa Thompson-Spires
$23.00
ISBN: 9781501167997
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Published: Atria / 37 INK - April 10th, 2018

NONFICTION

One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy Cover Image

One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy (Hardcover)

By Carol Anderson, Dick Durbin (Foreword by), Dick Durbin (Introduction by)
$27.00
ISBN: 9781635571370
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Published: Bloomsbury Publishing - September 11th, 2018
The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation Cover Image

The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation (Hardcover)

By Colin G. Calloway
$34.95
ISBN: 9780190652166
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Published: Oxford University Press, USA - April 2nd, 2018
Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan Cover Image

Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan (Hardcover)

By Steve Coll
$35.00
ISBN: 9781594204586
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Published: Penguin Press - February 6th, 2018
Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War Cover Image

Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War (Hardcover)

By Marwan Hisham, Molly Crabapple, Molly Crabapple (Illustrator)
$28.00
ISBN: 9780399590627
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Published: One World - May 15th, 2018
American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic Cover Image

American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic (Hardcover)

By Victoria Johnson
$29.95
ISBN: 9781631494192
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Published: Liveright Publishing Corporation - June 5th, 2018
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life Cover Image

The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life (Hardcover)

By David Quammen
$30.00
ISBN: 9781476776620
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Published: Simon & Schuster - August 14th, 2018
Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays) Cover Image

Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays) (Paperback)

By Rebecca Solnit
$15.95
ISBN: 9781608469468
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Published: Haymarket Books - September 4th, 2018
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke Cover Image

The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke (Hardcover)

By Jeffrey C. Stewart
$39.95
ISBN: 9780195089578
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Published: Oxford University Press, USA - February 1st, 2018
We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights Cover Image

We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights (Hardcover)

By Adam Winkler
$28.95
ISBN: 9780871407122
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Published: Liveright Publishing Corporation - February 27th, 2018

POETRY

Wobble (Wesleyan Poetry) Cover Image

Wobble (Wesleyan Poetry) (Hardcover)

By Rae Armantrout
$24.95
ISBN: 9780819578235
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Published: Wesleyan University Press - July 1st, 2018
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Feeld (Paperback)

By Jos Charles
$16.00
ISBN: 9781571315052
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Published: Milkweed Editions - August 14th, 2018
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Be with (Paperback)

By Forrest Gander
$16.95
ISBN: 9780811226059
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Published: New Directions Publishing Corporation - August 28th, 2018
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin (Penguin Poets) Cover Image

American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin (Penguin Poets) (Paperback)

By Terrance Hayes
$18.00
ISBN: 9780143133186
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Published: Penguin Books - June 19th, 2018
Museum of the Americas (National Poetry Series) Cover Image

Museum of the Americas (National Poetry Series) (Paperback)

By J. Michael Martinez
$20.00
ISBN: 9780143133445
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Published: Penguin Books - October 2nd, 2018
Ghost Of Cover Image

Ghost Of (Paperback)

By Diana Khoi Nguyen
$17.95
ISBN: 9781632430526
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Published: Omnidawn - April 3rd, 2018
Indecency Cover Image

Indecency (Paperback)

By Justin Phillip Reed
$16.95
ISBN: 9781566895149
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Published: Coffee House Press - May 8th, 2018
Lo Terciario / The Tertiary Cover Image

Lo Terciario / The Tertiary (Paperback)

By Raquel Salas Rivera
$20.00
ISBN: 9781937421274
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Published: Timeless, Infinite Light - April 14th, 2018
Monument: Poems New and Selected Cover Image

Monument: Poems New and Selected (Hardcover)

By Natasha Trethewey
$26.00
ISBN: 9781328507846
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Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - November 6th, 2018
Eye Level: Poems Cover Image

Eye Level: Poems (Paperback)

By Jenny Xie
$16.00
ISBN: 9781555978020
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Published: Graywolf Press - April 3rd, 2018

 

LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION

Aetherial Worlds: Stories Cover Image

Aetherial Worlds: Stories (Hardcover)

By Tatyana Tolstaya
$25.95
ISBN: 9781524732776
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Published: Knopf - March 20th, 2018
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Flights (Hardcover)

By Olga Tokarczuk, Jennifer Croft (Translated by)
$26.00
ISBN: 9780525534198
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Published: Riverhead Books - August 14th, 2018
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The Emissary (Paperback)

By Yoko Tawada, Margaret Mitsutani (Translator)
$14.95
ISBN: 9780811227629
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Published: New Directions Publishing Corporation - April 24th, 2018
Trick Cover Image

Trick (Paperback)

By Domenico Starnone, Jhumpa Lahiri (Translator)
$16.00
ISBN: 9781609454449
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Published: Europa Editions - March 6th, 2018
Wait, Blink: A Perfect Picture of Inner Life: A Novel Cover Image

Wait, Blink: A Perfect Picture of Inner Life: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Gunnhild Øyehaug
$26.00
ISBN: 9780374285890
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - June 5th, 2018
Love Cover Image

Love (Paperback)

By Hanne Orstavik, Martin Aitken (Translated by)
$17.00
ISBN: 9780914671947
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Published: Archipelago - February 13th, 2018
One Part Woman Cover Image

One Part Woman (Paperback)

By Perumal Murugan, Aniruddhan Vasudevan (Translator)
$16.00
ISBN: 9780802128805
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Published: Grove Press, Black Cat - November 13th, 2018
The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq Cover Image

The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq (Paperback)

By Dunya Mikhail, Max Weiss (Translator)
$16.95
ISBN: 9780811226127
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Published: New Directions Publishing Corporation - March 27th, 2018
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Comemadre (Paperback)

By Roque Larraquy, Heather Cleary (Translator)
$16.95
ISBN: 9781566895156
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Published: Coffee House Press - July 10th, 2018
Disoriental Cover Image

Disoriental (Paperback)

By Negar Djavadi, Tina Kover (Translator)
$18.00
ISBN: 9781609454517
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Published: Europa Editions - April 17th, 2018
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