Mission
The mission of the National Book Foundation is to celebrate the best literature in America, expand its audience, and ensure that books have a prominent place in American culture.
Values
Books are essential to a thriving cultural landscape
Books and literature provide a depth of engagement that helps to protect, stimulate, and promote discourse
Books and literature are for everyone, everywhere
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2023
Blackouts by 2022
The Rabbit Hutch by 2021
Hell of a Book by 2020
Interior Chinatown by 2019
2018
Browse the complete collection of National Book Award winners and finalists by year on the National Book Foundation website.
2024
Soldiers and Kings by 2023
2022
South to America by 2021
All That She Carried by 2020
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by 2019
The Yellow House by 2018
Browse the complete collection of National Book Award winners and finalists by year on the National Book Foundation website.
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Something about Living by 2023
From Unincorporated Territory [åmot] by 2022
Punks by 2021
Floaters by 2020
DMZ Colony by 2019
2018
Indecency by Browse the complete collection of National Book Award winners and finalists by year on the National Book Foundation website.
2024
Taiwan Travelogue by 2023
The Words That Remain by 2022
Seven Empty Houses by 2021
Winter in Sokcho by 2020
Tokyo Ueno Station by 2019
Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming by 2018
The Emissary by Browse the complete collection of National Book Award winners and finalists by year on the National Book Foundation website.
2024
Kareem Between by 2023
A First Time for Everything by 2022
All My Rage by 2021
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by 2020
King and the Dragonflies (Scholastic Gold) by 2019
1919 the Year That Changed America by 2018
Browse the complete collection of National Book Award winners and finalists by year on the National Book Foundation website.
