National Book Award Winners

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Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman. 2015 National Book Award Winner, Young People's Literature. Challenger Deep is an astonishing artistic achievement. In high school student Caden Bosch, Neal Shusterman has created a young hero who finds a way not just to navigate his own schizophrenic breakdown but to ease the struggles of his fellow patients. New Books, Challenges, Reading, Book Worth Reading, Bestselling Author, Reading Challenge, New York Times, The Journey, Deep Books
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Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman. 2015 National Book Award Winner, Young People's Literature. Challenger Deep is an astonishing artistic achievement. In high school student Caden Bosch, Neal Shusterman has created a young hero who finds a way not just to navigate his own schizophrenic breakdown but to ease the struggles of his fellow patients.
Voyage of the Sable Venus, by Robin Coste Lewis. 2015 National Book Award Winner, Poetry. Robin Coste Lewis's Voyage of the Sable Venus is a meditation on the cultural depiction of the black female figure.  Juxtaposing autobiography with art-historical constructs of racial identity, she defines and creates self. In poems that consider the boundaries of beauty and terror, Coste Lewis intimately involves us with all that has formed her. Poetry Books, Black Poets, American Poetry, Favorite Books, Good Books, Feminist Books, Lyric Poem, National Book Award Winners, Book Club
Voyage of the Sable Venus, by Robin Coste Lewis, 2015 National Book Award Winner, Poetry
Voyage of the Sable Venus, by Robin Coste Lewis. 2015 National Book Award Winner, Poetry. Robin Coste Lewis's Voyage of the Sable Venus is a meditation on the cultural depiction of the black female figure. Juxtaposing autobiography with art-historical constructs of racial identity, she defines and creates self. In poems that consider the boundaries of beauty and terror, Coste Lewis intimately involves us with all that has formed her.
Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. 2015 National Book Award Winner, Nonfiction. Between The World and Me is a brutally honest portrayal of the plight of the African-American male in this country.  Composed as a letter to his adolescent son, Ta-Nehisi Coates writes with chilling bleakness and precision about racism in America.  This is no simple account of racism, but rather a concise attack on a system which has consistently rendered black lives worthless. Memoirs, Worth Reading, Nonfiction Books, Great Books, Non Fiction, National Book Award
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Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. 2015 National Book Award Winner, Nonfiction. Between The World and Me is a brutally honest portrayal of the plight of the African-American male in this country. Composed as a letter to his adolescent son, Ta-Nehisi Coates writes with chilling bleakness and precision about racism in America. This is no simple account of racism, but rather a concise attack on a system which has consistently rendered black lives worthless.
Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson. 2015 National Book Award Winner, Fiction. There is poetry and heartbreak on every page of Adam Johnson’s extraordinary story collection, Fortune Smiles. Johnson is a virtuoso, writing with the same sensitivity and insight whether his setting is North Korea or New Orleans, Palo Alto or some other, imaginary world, as flawed and secretive as our own. The voices we encounter in these pages are by turns surprising, wondrous, comic and devastating. Johnson, Award Winning Books, Adam Johnson, Npr Books, Worth
Fortune Smiles, by Adam Johnson, 2015 National Book Award Winner, Fiction
Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson. 2015 National Book Award Winner, Fiction. There is poetry and heartbreak on every page of Adam Johnson’s extraordinary story collection, Fortune Smiles. Johnson is a virtuoso, writing with the same sensitivity and insight whether his setting is North Korea or New Orleans, Palo Alto or some other, imaginary world, as flawed and secretive as our own. The voices we encounter in these pages are by turns surprising, wondrous, comic and devastating.
Redeployment by Phil Klay. National Book Awards, 2014. Phil Klay's Redeployment takes readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking us to understand what happened there, and what happened to the soldiers who returned. Interwoven with themes of brutality and faith, guilt and fear, helplessness and survival, the characters in these stories struggle to make meaning out of chaos. Best Fiction Books, Best Books Of 2014, Fiction Books, Books 2014
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Redeployment by Phil Klay. National Book Awards, 2014. Phil Klay's Redeployment takes readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking us to understand what happened there, and what happened to the soldiers who returned. Interwoven with themes of brutality and faith, guilt and fear, helplessness and survival, the characters in these stories struggle to make meaning out of chaos.
Incarnadine by Mary Szybist. 2013 National Book Award Winner for Poetry. In Incarnadine, Mary Szybist restlessly seeks out places where meaning might take on new color. Opera, Tempera, Sandro Botticelli, Botticelli, Botticelli Art, Sandro, Italian Painters, Giorgio Vasari, Uffizi Gallery
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Incarnadine by Mary Szybist. 2013 National Book Award Winner for Poetry. In Incarnadine, Mary Szybist restlessly seeks out places where meaning might take on new color.
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer. 2013 National Book Award Winner for Nonfiction. A riveting examination of a nation in crisis, from one of the finest political journalists of our generation. Packer journeys through the lives of several Americans including a son of a tobacco farmer, a factory worker in the Rust Belt, a Washington insider, a Silicon Valley billionaire, and others. Films, History, Lincoln, Political Books, John Adams, Amy Poehler, The Constant Gardener
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America - Book Detail - St. Johns County Public Library System
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer. 2013 National Book Award Winner for Nonfiction. A riveting examination of a nation in crisis, from one of the finest political journalists of our generation. Packer journeys through the lives of several Americans including a son of a tobacco farmer, a factory worker in the Rust Belt, a Washington insider, a Silicon Valley billionaire, and others.
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride. 2013 National Book Award Winner for Fiction. From the bestselling author of "The Color of Water" and "Song Yet Sung" comes the story of a young boy born a slave who joins John Brown's antislavery crusade--and who must pass as a girl to survive. Books, Novels, Lord, Bird, Good Lord, Good Things, Best
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The Good Lord Bird by James McBride. 2013 National Book Award Winner for Fiction. From the bestselling author of "The Color of Water" and "Song Yet Sung" comes the story of a young boy born a slave who joins John Brown's antislavery crusade--and who must pass as a girl to survive.
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Goblin Secrets by William Alexander.   2012 National Book Award Winner for Young People's Literature. Hoping to find his lost brother, Rownie escapes the home of the witch Graba and joins a troupe of goblins who perform in Zombay, a city where humans are forbidden to wear masks and act in plays. Fantasy Books, Steampunk, The Secret, Nicholas Sparks, The Secret Book, Chapter Books, Fantasy Novel
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Goblin Secrets by William Alexander. 2012 National Book Award Winner for Young People's Literature. Hoping to find his lost brother, Rownie escapes the home of the witch Graba and joins a troupe of goblins who perform in Zombay, a city where humans are forbidden to wear masks and act in plays.
Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations by David Ferry. 2012 National Book Award Winner for Poetry Poetry, Literature, David
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Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations by David Ferry. 2012 National Book Award Winner for Poetry
The Round House by Louise Erdrich.   2012 National Book Award Winner for Fiction. One of the most revered novelists of our time--a brilliant chronicler of Native-American life--Erdrich returns to the territory of her bestselling, Pulitzer Prize finalist "The Plague of Doves" with a story that transports readers to the Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota. Coming Of Age, Literary Fiction, Book Discussion, Plague, Louise Erdrich
The Round House - Book Detail - St. Johns County Public Library System
The Round House by Louise Erdrich. 2012 National Book Award Winner for Fiction. One of the most revered novelists of our time--a brilliant chronicler of Native-American life--Erdrich returns to the territory of her bestselling, Pulitzer Prize finalist "The Plague of Doves" with a story that transports readers to the Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota.
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo. 2012 National Book Award Winner for Nonfiction    From Pulitzer Prize-winner Boo comes a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the 21st century's great, unequal cities. Author, Book Review, Books To Read
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo. 2012 National Book Award Winner for Nonfiction From Pulitzer Prize-winner Boo comes a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the 21st century's great, unequal cities.
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2012 National Book Awards Finalists Revealed
2012 National Book Awards Finalists Revealed
Head Off & Split: Poems by Nikky Finney, 2011 National Book Award Winner for Poetry Book Lists, Book Of Poems, Literary Work
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Head Off & Split: Poems by Nikky Finney, 2011 National Book Award Winner for Poetry