Here are the finalists for the 2026 National Book Awards
Three-time National Book Award finalist Edwidge Danticat and debut novelist Morgan Thomas are up for the fiction prize.
NPR reports: Three-time National Book Award finalist Edwidge Danticat and debut novelist Morgan Thomas are up for the fiction prize.
Nonfiction books cover the prison system and music, and queer parenthood.
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