WinnerInterior Chinatown
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Award year
2020 National Book Award
Fiction
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National Book AwardA Children’s Bible
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National Book AwardLeave the World Behind
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National Book AwardShuggie Bain
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National Book AwardThe Secret Lives of Church Ladies
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Nonfiction
WinnerThe Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
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National Book AwardHow to Make a Slave and Other Essays
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National Book AwardMy Autobiography of Carson McCullers
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National Book AwardThe Undocumented Americans
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National Book AwardUnworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
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Poetry
WinnerDMZ Colony
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National Book AwardA Treatise on Stars
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National Book AwardBorderland Apocrypha
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National Book AwardFantasia for the Man in Blue
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National Book AwardPostcolonial Love Poem
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Translated Literature
WinnerTokyo Ueno Station
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National Book AwardHigh as the Waters Rise
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National Book AwardMinor Detail
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National Book AwardThe Bitch
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National Book AwardThe Family Clause
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Young People's Literature
WinnerKing and the Dragonflies
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National Book AwardEvery Body Looking
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National Book AwardThe Way Back
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National Book AwardWe Are Not Free
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National Book AwardWhen Stars Are Scattered
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