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National Book Award Finalists

The five finalists for the National Book Award for Fiction, announced October 2026, with the winner revealed November 18. Read the shortlist before the ceremony: Hannah Lillith Assadi's Paradiso 17, Edwidge Danticat's Dèy, Julián Delgado Lopera's Pretend You're Dead and I Carry You, Valeria Luiselli's Beginning Middle End, and Morgan Thomas's Mad Eden.