National Book Awards
The National Book Award is awarded by the Association of American Publishers. The following is a list of the winners for Fiction and Nonfiction; other categories include Poetry, Young People's Literature and the medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. Awards are announced in November of each year.
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F Johnson
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(Fiction, 2007) Set in 1965, this novel depicts characters working in the CIA during the United States' involvement in Vietnam.
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F Choi
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(Fiction, 2019) What happens when a first love between high school students is interrupted by the attentions of a charismatic teacher.
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F Whitehead
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(Fiction, 2016) This book explores the life of Cora, a slave in Georgia, and her escape to freedom. Whitehead highlights the terrifying reality of slaves seeking freedom.
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814.54 V6487u
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(Nonfiction, 1993) From Eisenhower to Clinton, Gore Vidal looks at American history, politics, and culture through 114 essays.
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972.91 E3594w 2004
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(Nonfiction, 2003) The author reminisces about his childhood in 1950s Havana and the overnight upheaval of his world in January 1959 when the Batista government was toppled.
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F Ha
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(Fiction, 1999) Set in China as its society is slowly moving away from its traditional ways, the novel focuses on the lives of three characters in a love triangle.
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978.032 E282w 2006
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(Nonfiction, 2006) Egan details the stories of those who lived through the Great Depression's Dust Bowl.
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813.54 D5565y 2005
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(Nonfiction, 2005) Joan Didion explores her intensely personal yet universal experience of a life, family, and marriage in both good times and bad.
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814.6 B8738y 2019
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(Nonfiction, 2019) Recounts a hundred years of her family's lives and their relationship to a home in New Orleans.