The National Book Foundation have announced their finalists for the 2022 Book Awards across the following five categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature.

The five winners of the US awards will be announced on 16 November at the 73rd National Book Awards Ceremony in New York City. The 25 finalists will received $1000 and a bronze medal. The winners across the five categories will receive $10 000 and a bronze medal and statue.

Check out the finalists now:

FICTION

Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch (Alfred A. Knopf / Penguin Random House)

Gayl Jones, The Birdcatcher (Beacon Press)

Jamil Jan Kochai, The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories (Viking Books / Penguin Random House)

Sarah Thankam Mathews, All This Could Be Different (Viking Books / Penguin Random House)

Alejandro Varela, The Town of Babylon (Astra House / Astra Publishing House)

NON-FICTION

Meghan O’Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness (Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House)

Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation (Ecco / HarperCollins Publishers)

David Quammen, Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus (Simon & Schuster)

Ingrid Rojas Contreras, The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir (Doubleday / Penguin Random House)

Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa, His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice (Viking Books / Penguin Random House)

POETRY

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Look at This Blue (Coffee House Press)

John Keene, Punks: New & Selected Poems (The Song Cave)

Sharon Olds, Balladz (Alfred A. Knopf / Penguin Random House)

Roger Reeves, Best Barbarian (W. W. Norton & Company)

Jenny Xie, The Rupture Tense (Graywolf Press)

TRANSLATED LITERATURE

Jon Fosse, A New Name: Septology VI-VII
Translated from the Norwegian by Damion Searls (Transit Books)

Scholastique Mukasonga, Kibogo
Translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti (Archipelago Books)

Mónica Ojeda, Jawbone
Translated from the Spanish by Sarah Booker (Coffee House Press)

Samanta Schweblin, Seven Empty Houses
Translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell (Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House)

Yoko Tawada, Scattered All Over the Earth
Translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani (New Directions Publishing)

YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE

Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans (Algonquin Young Readers / Workman Publishing)

Sonora Reyes, The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School (Balzer + Bray / HarperCollins Publishers)

Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes, and Dawud Anyabwile, Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice (Norton Young Readers / W. W. Norton & Company)

Sabaa Tahir, All My Rage (Razorbill / Penguin Random House)

Lisa Yee, Maizy Chen’s Last Chance (Random House Books for Young Readers / Penguin Random House)

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