WinnerThe True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)
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Fiction
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National Book AwardA Guardian and a Thief
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National Book AwardNorth Sun: Or, the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther
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National Book AwardPalaver
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National Book AwardThe Antidote
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Nonfiction
WinnerOne Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
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National Book AwardMotherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
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National Book AwardThings in Nature Merely Grow
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National Book AwardWards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care
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National Book AwardWhen It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World
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Poetry
WinnerThe Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems
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National Book AwardBecoming Ghost
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National Book AwardI Do Know Some Things
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National Book AwardScorched Earth
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National Book AwardThe New Economy
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Translated Literature
WinnerWe Are Green and Trembling
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National Book AwardOn the Calculation of Volume (Book III)
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National Book AwardSad Tiger
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National Book AwardThe Remembered Soldier
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National Book AwardWe Computers: A Ghazal Novel
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Young People's Literature
WinnerThe Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story
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National Book Award(S)Kin
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National Book AwardA World Worth Saving
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National Book AwardThe Leaving Room
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National Book AwardTruth Is
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