Books Honored by the National Book Foundation
The mission of the National Book Foundation is to celebrate the best of American literature, to expand its audience, and to enhance the cultural value of great writing in America. National Book Awards are given five categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature.
Here we highlight the winners of African descent. The first African-American writer to win a National Book Award was Ralph Ellison, in 1953, for Invisible Man.
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9 Books Honored by the National Book Foundation in 2015
Winner - Nonfiction
Between The World And Me
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
- A Top 10 Book in the “Nonfiction Books from the 21st Century” Category
- 10 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Selected for 2 Book Clubs’s Reading Lists
- Kirkus Prize Finalist/Winner 2015
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
- A New York Times Notable Book for 2015
Publication Date: Jul 01, 2015
List Price: $26.00
Format: Hardcover, 176 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780812993547
Imprint: Spiegel & Grau
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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Winner - Poetry
Voyage of the Sable Venus: and Other Poems
by Robin Coste Lewis
Publication Date: Sep 29, 2015
List Price: $26.00
Format: Hardcover, 160 pages
Classification: Poetry
ISBN13: 9781101875438
Imprint: Knopf
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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Finalist - Fiction
The Turner House
by Angela Flournoy
- Hurston/Wright Honored Book (2016)
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
- 2016 BCALA Literary Award
- A New York Times Notable Book for 2015
Publication Date: Apr 14, 2015
List Price: $23.00
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780544303164
Imprint: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Parent Company: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Finalist - Nonfiction
Ordinary Light: A Memoir
by Tracy K. Smith
Publication Date: Mar 31, 2015
List Price: $25.95
Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
Classification: Nonfiction
ISBN13: 9780307962669
Imprint: Knopf
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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Finalist - Poetry
How to Be Drawn
by Terrance Hayes
Publication Date: Mar 31, 2015
List Price: $20.00
Format: Paperback, 112 pages
Classification: Poetry
ISBN13: 9780143126881
Imprint: William Morrow
Publisher: HarperCollins
Parent Company: News Corp
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Finalist - Poetry
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (Pitt Poetry Series)
by Ross Gay
- 1 Time AALBC.com Bestselling Book!
- Hurston/Wright Honored Book (2016)
- An NAACP Image Award Honored Book
Publication Date: Jan 07, 2015
List Price: $15.95
Format: Paperback, 112 pages
Classification: Poetry
ISBN13: 9780822963318
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Parent Company: University of Pittsburgh
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Longlist - Fiction
Welcome to Braggsville: A Novel
by T. Geronimo Johnson
Publication Date: Feb 17, 2015
List Price: $25.99
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Classification: Fiction
ISBN13: 9780062302120
Imprint: Penguin Books
Publisher: Penguin Random House
Parent Company: Bertelsmann
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Longlist - Poetry
Heaven: Poems
by Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Publication Date: Jun 16, 2015
List Price: $24.00
Format: Hardcover, 80 pages
Classification: Poetry
ISBN13: 9780374168520
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
Parent Company: Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
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Longlist - Young People’s Literature
X: A Novel
by Ilyasah Shabazz, Illustrated by Kekla Magoon
Publication Date: Jan 06, 2015
List Price: $16.99
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
Classification: Fiction
Target Age Group: Young Adult
ISBN13: 9780763669676
Imprint: Candlewick Press
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Parent Company: Candlewick Press