The finalists for this year’s National Book Awards have been announced.

2020 Finalists for Fiction

• Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
• A Children’s Bible by Lydia Millet
• The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw
• Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
• Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu

2020 Finalists for Nonfiction

• The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne & Tamara Payne
• Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory by Claudio Saunt
• My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland
• The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
• How To Make a Slave and Other Essays by Jerald Walker

2020 Finalists for Young People’s Literature

• King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender
• We Are Not Free by Traci Chee
• Every Body Looking by Candice Iloh
• When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson & Omar Mohamed
• The Way Back by Gavriel Savit

2020 Finalists for Translated Literature

• High as the Waters Rise by Anja Kampmann (translated by Anne Posten)
• The Family Clause by Jonas Hassen (translated by Khemiri Alice Menzies)
• Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri (translated by Morgan Giles)
• The Bitch by Pilar Quintana (translated by Lisa Dillman)
• Minor Detail by Adania Shibli (translated by Elisabeth Jaquette)

2020 Finalists for Poetry

• A Treatise on Stars by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
• Fantasia for the Man in Blue by Tommye Blount
• DMZ Colony by Don Mee Choi
• Borderland Apocrypha by Anthony Cody
• Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz

2020 5 Under 35 Honorees

• Bestiary by K-Ming Chang
• Halsey Street by Naima Coster
• Luster by Raven Leilani
• A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
• How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang