WinnerThe Round House
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2012 National Book Award
Fiction
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National Book AwardA Hologram for the King
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National Book AwardBilly Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
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National Book AwardThe Yellow Birds
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National Book AwardThis Is How You Lose Her
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Nonfiction
WinnerBehind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
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National Book AwardHouse of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
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National Book AwardIron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945-1956
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National Book AwardThe Boy Kings of Texas
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National Book AwardThe Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 4
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Poetry
WinnerBewilderment: New Poems and Translations
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National Book AwardFast Animal
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National Book AwardHeavenly Bodies
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National Book AwardMeme
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National Book AwardNight of the Republic
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Young People's Literature
WinnerGoblin Secrets
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National Book AwardBomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
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National Book AwardEndangered
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National Book AwardNever Fall Down
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National Book AwardOut of Reach
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