The shortlists for this year’s National Book Awards have been announced. Congratulations to all the finalists.

2017 Fiction Shortlist

• Dark at the Crossing by Elliot Ackerman
• The Leavers by Lisa Ko
• Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
• Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
• Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

2017 Nonfiction Shortlist

• Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
• The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America by Frances FitzGerald
• The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen
• Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
• Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America by Nancy MacLean

2017 Poetry Shortlist

• Half-light by Frank Bidart
• The Book of Endings by Leslie Harrison
• WHEREAS by Layli Long Soldier
• In the Language of My Captor by Shane McCrae
• Don’t Call Us Dead by Danez Smith

2017 Young People’s Literature Shortlist

• What Girls Are Made Of by Elana K. Arnold
• Far from the Tree by Robin Benway
• I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez
• Clayton Byrd Goes Underground by Rita Williams-Garcia
• American Street by Ibi Zoboi

2017 5 Under 35 Honorees

• Lesley Nneka Arimah, author of What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
• Halle Butler, author of Jillian
• Zinzi Clemmons, author of What We Lose
• Leopoldine Core, author of When Watched
• Weike Wang, author of Chemistry

2017 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters

Annie Proulx

2017 Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community

Scholastic Chairman, President & CEO Richard Robinson