The National Book Foundation announced the finalists for this year's National Book Awards. The winners will be named November 14 at a benefit dinner and ceremony in New York City. This year's shortlisted titles are:
Fiction:
A Lucky Man by Jamel Brinkley (Graywolf Press)
Florida by Lauren Groff (Riverhead Books)
Where the Dead Sit Talking by Brandon Hobson (Soho Press)
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai (Viking Books)
The Friend by Sigrid Nunez (Riverhead Books)
Nonfiction:
The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation by Colin G. Calloway (Oxford University Press)
American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic by Victoria Johnson (Liveright)
Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh (Scribner)
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C. Stewart (Oxford University Press)
We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights by Adam Winkler (Liveright)
Poetry:
Wobble by Rae Armantrout (Wesleyan University Press)
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes (Penguin Books)
Ghost Of by Diana Khoi Nguyen (Omnidawn Publishing)
Indecency by Justin Phillip Reed (Coffee House Press)
Eye Level by Jenny Xie (Graywolf Press)
Translated Literature:
Disoriental by Négar Djavadi, translated by Tina Kover (Europa Editions)
Love by Hanne Ørstavik, translated by Martin Aitken (Archipelago Books)
Trick by Domenico Starnone, translated by Jhumpa Lahiri (Europa Editions)
The Emissary by Yoko Tawada, translated by Margaret Mitsutani (New Directions Publishing)
Flights by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft (Riverhead Books)
Young People's Literature:
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (HarperTeen)
The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin (Candlewick Press)
The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle by Leslie Connor (Katherine Tegen Books)
The Journey of Little Charlie by Christopher Paul Curtis (Scholastic Press)
Hey, Kiddo by Jarrett J. Krosoczka (Graphix)
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Hachette Australia and the Emerging Writers' Festival have unveiled the shortlist for the 2018 Richell Prize for emerging writers, which was created in memory of former Hachette Australia CEO Matt Richell, who died in 2014 in a surfing accident. The winner, who will be announced on November 7, receives A$10,000 (about US$7,065) and mentoring from a Hachette publisher to help develop the work to publication. The shortlisted writers and their works are:
She Is Bright Light and All Brilliance by Mandy Beaumont
Pomegranate & Fig by Zoe Ghani
I Shot the Devil by Ruth McIver
The Shape of Sound by Fiona Murphy
Tempest and Other Stories by Fiona Robertson