The National Book Foundation released the finalists for the 2021 National Book Award. Grab these titles now in the library or through the Cloud and Greater Phoenix Digital libraries, and see if you agree with the award winners to be announced on November 17.
Fiction
- Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel by Anthony Doerr. Published by Scribner. Available in print and electronic download.
- Matrix: A Novel by Lauren Goff. Published by Riverhead Books. Available in print and electronic download.
- Zorrie: A Novel by Laird Hunt. Published by Bloomsbury Publishing. Available in print.
- The Prophets: A Novel by Robert Jones, Jr. Published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons. Available in print and electronic download.
- Hell of a Book: or the Altogether Factual, Wholly Bona Fide Story of a Big Dreams, Hard Luck, American-Made Mad Kid by Jason Mott. Published by Dutton. Available in print and electronic download.
Nonfiction
- A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib. Published by Random House. Available in print and electronic download.
- Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains by Lucas Bessire. Published by Princeton University Press. Available in electronic download.
- Taste like War: A Memoir by Grace M. Cho. Published by The Feminist Press at CUNY. Available in electronic download.
- Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America by Nicole Eustace. Published by Liverpool. Available in print and electronic download.
- All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles. Published by Random House. Available in print and electronic download.