The National Book Foundation has announced its shortlist of finalists for the 2015 National Book Awards.
Founded in 1950, the National Book Awards is an annual celebration of American literature, bestowing prizes upon the best new books that fall under the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people's literature. Notable past winners have included Jonathan Franzen for The Corrections, Ralph Ellison for The Invisible Man, Patti Smith for Just Kids and Louis Sachar for Holes.
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This year's crop of nominees include several buzzed-about books, such as Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (which was also nominated for the Man Booker Prize this year) and Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Here's the full shortlist of 2015 National Book Award nominees. Winners will be announced on November 18.
Fiction
Refund by Karen E. Bender
The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
Fourtune Smiles by Adam Johnson
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
Nonfiction
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Hold Still by Sally Mann
The Soul of an Octopusby Sy Montgomery
If The Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran by Carla Power
Ordinary Light by Tracy K. Smith
Poetry
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay
How to Be Drawn by Terrance Hayes
Voyage of the Sable Venus by Robin Coste Lewis
Bright Dead Things>by Ada Limon
Elegy for a Broken Machine by Patrick Phillips
Young People's Literature
The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin
Bone Gap by Laura Ruby
Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War by Steve Sheinkin
Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman
Nimona by Noelle Stevenson