{"id":9402,"date":"2026-10-06T18:26:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T18:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev95.site\/here-is-the-2026-national-book-award-shortlist-for-fiction\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T18:26:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T18:26:03","slug":"here-is-the-2026-national-book-award-shortlist-for-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev95.site\/ar\/here-is-the-2026-national-book-award-shortlist-for-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Here is the 2026 National Book Award Shortlist for Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"dev95-2887635090\" class=\"dev95-- dev95-entity-placement\"><script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl27862732.profitableratecpmnetwork.com\/2ad7a50e0bbc23ac6801d7b77c501463\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-2ad7a50e0bbc23ac6801d7b77c501463\"><\/div><\/div><div id=\"dev95-1044393599\" class=\"dev95-before-content dev95-entity-placement\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Stop wasting time on dead links! \ud83d\uded1 This smart platform automatically detects your device and country to give you the exact best offer instantly. Check it out now 100% free! \ud83d\udc47<\/strong><br data-sfc-root=\"ep\" data-sfc-pl=\"|||[]\" data-complete=\"true\" data-copy-service-computed-style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif, &quot;Noto Color Emoji&quot;; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(10, 10, 10);\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.profitableratecpmnetwork.com\/pvhx5mbcc?key=ff7d362db3c20bc86fad685cc94f1fc4\">\ud83d\udd17 <strong class=\"rQesXe MPyX\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"ep\" data-complete=\"true\" aria-owns=\"action-menu-parent-container\" data-copy-service-computed-style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif, &quot;Noto Color Emoji&quot;; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 0px rgb(10, 10, 10);\">[Click here]<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just last month, the National Book Award judges announced their longlists for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People\u2019s Literature. Today, they\u2019ve shared their shortlists for each of these categories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The awards will be presented at the National Book Award Ceremony and Dinner in November, when finalists will be awarded $1,000 each, and the winners of each category will win $10,000 and a bronze medal.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the five books on the shortlist for the 2026 National Book Award for Fiction, along with what critics and authors are saying about them.<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div class=\"wp-block-book-blurb-block-main book-blurb bookblurb-block bookblurb\">\n<div class=\"bookblurb__content\">\n<div class=\"bookblurb__cover-and-save\" style=\"float: left;\"><a class=\"bookblurb__coverlink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=92005&amp;awinaffid=258769&amp;pref1=bookriot&amp;pref2=2026-national-book-award-shortlist-for-fiction&amp;ued=https%3A%2F%2Fbookshop.org%2Fbook%2F9780593804056\" data-ean=\"9780593804056\" data-asin=\"0593804058\" data-title=\"Paradiso 17: A Novel\" data-author=\"Assadi, Hannah Lillith\" title=\"Buy from Bookshop.org\"><!--[if mso]>\n\n<table align=\"left\" style=\"margin-right:20px;padding-bottom:20px;\">\n\n<tr>\n\n<td><![endif]--><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"bookblurb__image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bookriot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Paradiso-17-Hannah-Lillith-Assadi-cover-300x0.jpg.optimal.jpg?w=200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Cover Image of Paradiso 17 by Hannah Lillith Assadi\"  ><!--[if mso]><\/td>\n\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/table>\n\n<![endif]--><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"save-to-collection-wrapper save-to-collection-book-blurb\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0.75rem;\">\n<div class=\"save-to-collection-mount\" data-book-id=\"26360\" data-book-title=\"Paradiso 17\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"bookblurb__booktitle\"><em><a product-id=\"0593804058\" href=\"https:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=92005&amp;awinaffid=258769&amp;pref1=bookriot&amp;pref2=2026-national-book-award-shortlist-for-fiction&amp;ued=https%3A%2F%2Fbookshop.org%2Fbook%2F9780593804056\" target=\"_blank\" nofollow=\"nofollow\" title=\"Buy from Bookshop.org\" data-title=\"Paradiso 17: A Novel\" data-publisher=\"Knopf\" data-releasedate=\"2026-03-17\" data-ean=\"9780593804056\" data-asin=\"0593804058\" data-author=\"Assadi, Hannah Lillith\" class=\"rnmg-book\">Paradiso 17<\/a><\/em> by Hannah Lillith Assadi<\/h3>\n<div class=\"bookblurb__description\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAssadi (The Stars Are Not Yet Bells) spins a beautiful and heartbreaking novel out of a Palestinian man\u2019s deathbed reflections.\u201d \u2014<em>Publishers Weekly<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c\u201cParadiso 17,\u201d her third work of fiction, is quiet and alert; it is a study in inheritance, in the afterlife of ideology, in the way history seeps into every curated idyll.\u201d \u2014<em>The New York Times<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div class=\"wp-block-book-blurb-block-main book-blurb bookblurb-block bookblurb\">\n<div class=\"bookblurb__content\">\n<div class=\"bookblurb__cover-and-save\" style=\"float: left;\"><a class=\"bookblurb__coverlink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=92005&amp;awinaffid=258769&amp;pref1=bookriot&amp;pref2=2026-national-book-award-shortlist-for-fiction&amp;ued=https%3A%2F%2Fbookshop.org%2Fbook%2F9798217413355\" data-ean=\"9798217413355\" data-asin=\"B0GNCYS7W2\" data-title=\"D\u00e8y: A Novel\" data-author=\"Danticat, Edwidge\" title=\"Buy from Bookshop.org\"><!--[if mso]>\n\n<table align=\"left\" style=\"margin-right:20px;padding-bottom:20px;\">\n\n<tr>\n\n<td><![endif]--><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"bookblurb__image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bookriot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Dey-Edwidge-Danticat-cover-300x0.jpg.optimal.jpg?w=200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Cover Image of D\u00e8y by Edwidge Danticat\"  ><!--[if mso]><\/td>\n\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/table>\n\n<![endif]--><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"save-to-collection-wrapper save-to-collection-book-blurb\" style=\"margin-bottom: 0.75rem;\">\n<div class=\"save-to-collection-mount\" data-book-id=\"29855\" data-book-title=\"D\u00e8y\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"bookblurb__booktitle\"><em><a product-id=\"B0GNCYS7W2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=92005&amp;awinaffid=258769&amp;pref1=bookriot&amp;pref2=2026-national-book-award-shortlist-for-fiction&amp;ued=https%3A%2F%2Fbookshop.org%2Fbook%2F9798217413355\" target=\"_blank\" nofollow=\"nofollow\" title=\"Buy from Bookshop.org\" data-title=\"D\u00e8y: A Novel\" data-publisher=\"Random House Large Print\" data-releasedate=\"2026-08-25\" data-ean=\"9798217413355\" data-asin=\"B0GNCYS7W2\" data-author=\"Danticat, Edwidge\" class=\"rnmg-book\">D\u00e8y<\/a><\/em> by Edwidge Danticat<\/h3>\n<div class=\"bookblurb__description\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA Haitian American woman reckons with the cost of hiding her pain in this illuminating novel from Danticat, winner of the NBCC award for\u00a0<em>Everything Inside<\/em>.\u201d\u2014<em>Publishers Weekly<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA powerful study of motherhood, nationhood, and violence.\u201d \u2014Kirkus<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cD\u00e8y\u201d is a love song and an elegy for the Haitian diaspora.\u201d \u2014<em>The New York Times<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div class=\"wp-block-book-blurb-block-main book-blurb bookblurb-block bookblurb\">\n<div class=\"bookblurb__content\"><a class=\"bookblurb__coverlink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=92005&amp;awinaffid=258769&amp;pref1=bookriot&amp;pref2=2026-national-book-award-shortlist-for-fiction&amp;ued=https%3A%2F%2Fbookshop.org%2Fbook%2F9781324147442\" data-ean=\"9781324147442\" data-asin=\"132414744X\" data-title=\"Pretend You're Dead and I Carry You: A Novel\" data-author=\"Delgado Lopera, Juli\u00e1n\" title=\"Buy from Bookshop.org\"><!--[if mso]>\n\n<table align=\"left\" style=\"margin-right:20px;padding-bottom:20px;\">\n\n<tr>\n\n<td><![endif]--><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"bookblurb__image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bookriot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Pretend-Youre-Dead-and-I-Carry-You-300x0.jpeg.optimal.jpeg?w=200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"cover of Pretend You\u2019re Dead and I Carry You\"  ><!--[if mso]><\/td>\n\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/table>\n\n<![endif]--><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"bookblurb__booktitle\"><em><a product-id=\"132414744X\" href=\"https:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=92005&amp;awinaffid=258769&amp;pref1=bookriot&amp;pref2=2026-national-book-award-shortlist-for-fiction&amp;ued=https%3A%2F%2Fbookshop.org%2Fbook%2F9781324147442\" target=\"_blank\" nofollow=\"nofollow\" title=\"Buy from Bookshop.org\" data-title=\"Pretend You're Dead and I Carry You: A Novel\" data-publisher=\"Liveright\" data-releasedate=\"2027-07-13\" data-ean=\"9781324147442\" data-asin=\"132414744X\" data-author=\"Delgado Lopera, Juli\u00e1n\" class=\"rnmg-book\">Pretend You\u2019re Dead and I Carry You<\/a><\/em> by Juli\u00e1n Delgado Lopera<\/h3>\n<div class=\"bookblurb__description\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Delgado Lopera (<em>Fiebre Tropical<\/em>) dives into Colombia\u2019s taboo queer culture in this scintillating narrative of a man torn between belonging and self-expression.\u201d \u2014<em>Publishers Weekly<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA fierce Colombian coming-of-age story shaped by grief and secrecy.\u201d \u2014Kirkus<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div class=\"wp-block-book-blurb-block-main book-blurb bookblurb-block bookblurb\">\n<div class=\"bookblurb__content\"><a class=\"bookblurb__coverlink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=92005&amp;awinaffid=258769&amp;pref1=bookriot&amp;pref2=2026-national-book-award-shortlist-for-fiction&amp;ued=https%3A%2F%2Fbookshop.org%2Fbook%2F9798217347001\" data-ean=\"9798217347001\" data-asin=\"B0FY5YTY6T\" data-title=\"Beginning Middle End: A Novel\" data-author=\"Luiselli, Valeria\" title=\"Buy from Bookshop.org\"><!--[if mso]>\n\n<table align=\"left\" style=\"margin-right:20px;padding-bottom:20px;\">\n\n<tr>\n\n<td><![endif]--><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"bookblurb__image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bookriot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Beginning-Middle-End-Valeria-Luiselli-cover-300x0.jpg.optimal.jpg?w=200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Cover Image of Beginning Middle End by Valeria Luiselli\"  ><!--[if mso]><\/td>\n\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/table>\n\n<![endif]--><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"bookblurb__booktitle\"><em><a product-id=\"B0FY5YTY6T\" href=\"https:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=92005&amp;awinaffid=258769&amp;pref1=bookriot&amp;pref2=2026-national-book-award-shortlist-for-fiction&amp;ued=https%3A%2F%2Fbookshop.org%2Fbook%2F9798217347001\" target=\"_blank\" nofollow=\"nofollow\" title=\"Buy from Bookshop.org\" data-title=\"Beginning Middle End: A Novel\" data-publisher=\"Random House Large Print\" data-releasedate=\"2026-07-28\" data-ean=\"9798217347001\" data-asin=\"B0FY5YTY6T\" data-author=\"Luiselli, Valeria\" class=\"rnmg-book\">Beginning Middle End<\/a><\/em> by Valeria Luiselli<\/h3>\n<div class=\"bookblurb__description\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA writer and her 12-year-old daughter grapple with their family legacy while on a road trip through Sicily in this arresting and layered novel from Luiselli (<em>Lost Children Archive<\/em>)\u2026It\u2019s a masterpiece.\u201d \u2014<em>Publishers Weekly<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAn offbeat migration story as piercing and artful as any in Luiselli\u2019s oeuvre.\u201d \u2014Kirkus<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<table width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div class=\"wp-block-book-blurb-block-main book-blurb bookblurb-block bookblurb\">\n<div class=\"bookblurb__content\"><a class=\"bookblurb__coverlink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=92005&amp;awinaffid=258769&amp;pref1=bookriot&amp;pref2=2026-national-book-award-shortlist-for-fiction&amp;ued=https%3A%2F%2Fbookshop.org%2Fbook%2F9781250492562\" data-ean=\"9781250492562\" data-asin=\"1250492564\" data-title=\"Mad Eden: A Novel\" data-author=\"Thomas, Morgan\" title=\"Buy from Bookshop.org\"><!--[if mso]>\n\n<table align=\"left\" style=\"margin-right:20px;padding-bottom:20px;\">\n\n<tr>\n\n<td><![endif]--><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"bookblurb__image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bookriot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Mad-Eden-Morgan-Thomas-cover-300x0.jpg.optimal.jpg?w=200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Cover Image of Mad Eden by Morgan Thomas\"  ><!--[if mso]><\/td>\n\n<\/tr>\n\n<\/table>\n\n<![endif]--><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"bookblurb__booktitle\"><em><a product-id=\"1250492564\" href=\"https:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=92005&amp;awinaffid=258769&amp;pref1=bookriot&amp;pref2=2026-national-book-award-shortlist-for-fiction&amp;ued=https%3A%2F%2Fbookshop.org%2Fbook%2F9781250492562\" target=\"_blank\" nofollow=\"nofollow\" title=\"Buy from Bookshop.org\" data-title=\"Mad Eden: A Novel\" data-publisher=\"Picador\" data-releasedate=\"2027-06-01\" data-ean=\"9781250492562\" data-asin=\"1250492564\" data-author=\"Thomas, Morgan\" class=\"rnmg-book\">Mad Eden<\/a><\/em> by Morgan Thomas<\/h3>\n<div class=\"bookblurb__description\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cRadically inventive, compassionate, and perspicacious. 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