Last night, Emmy and Tony Award winning actress Cynthia Nixon hosted the 2017 National Book Awards in New York City. Below is a full list of nominations and winners from the ceremony.
Fiction
- Elliot Ackerman, Dark at the Crossing
- Lisa Ko, The Leavers
- Min Jin Lee, Pachinko
- Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
- WINNER: Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing
Nonfiction
- Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
- Frances FitzGerald, The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America
- WINNER: Masha Gessen, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
- David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
- Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America
Poetry
- WINNER: Frank Bidart, Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016
- Leslie Harrison, The Book of Endings
- Layli Long Soldier, WHEREAS
- Shane McCrae, In the Language of My Captor
- Danez Smith, Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems
Young People’s Literature
- Elana K. Arnold, What Girls Are Made Of
- WINNER: Robin Benway, Far from the Tree
- Erika L. Sánchez, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
- Rita Williams-Garcia, Clayton Byrd Goes Underground
- Ibi Zoboi, American Street