Eleven PRH Titles Make the National Book Award Finals!

By Rafa Ashraf | October 4 2024 | AdultChildren's

On October 1, in New York City, the National Book Foundation announced their 50 contenders. Eleven of the 50 shortlisted titles selected by the judges in each of the Young People’s Literature, Translated Literature, Poetry, Nonfiction, and Fiction categories are published by PRH imprints, and will contend for 2024 National Book Awards. It is said our representation in Nonfiction and Fiction is particularly strong.

Ta-Nehisi Coates, whose newest book “The Message,” is published by One World October 1,  will present the Foundation’s 2024 Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community to W. Paul Coates, publisher, community activist, and founder of Black Classic Press and BCP Digital Printers.

Following the judges’ voting in the afternoon, the five NBA category winners will be presented Wednesday evening, November 20, at the Foundation’s traditional downtown Manhattan black-tie dinner.

Check out our 2024 National Book Award Finalists selling materials below:

Fiction Finalists:

Nonfiction Finalists:

9780593593837
The definitive takedown of fatphobia, drawing on personal experience as well as rigorous research to expose how size discrimination harms everyone, and how to combat it—from the acclaimed author of Down Girl and Entitled
$29.00 US
Jan 09, 2024
Hardcover
320 Pages
Crown
US, Canada, Open Mkt

9780593298589
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD“A work of extraordinary reportage and compassion...[it] will shock you, move you, and leave you changed.”—Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Evicted and Poverty, by America“An enlightening, frightening, unforgettable read.”—Sandra Cisneros, bestselling author of The House on Mango StreetAn intense, intimate and first-of-its-kind look at the world of human smuggling in Latin America, by a MacArthur "genius" grant winner and anthropologist with unprecedented access
$32.00 US
Mar 19, 2024
Hardcover
400 Pages
Viking
World

9780593730249
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring—and surviving—an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him
$28.00 US
Apr 16, 2024
Hardcover
224 Pages
Random House
US, Opn Mkt (no CAN)

Poetry Finalist:

9780143137832
A stunning, multimorphic work of poetry and prose about Indigenous identity
$20.00 US
Jul 16, 2024
Paperback
144 Pages
Penguin Books
US, Canada, Open Mkt

Translated Literature:

9780593535455
The winner of Sweden’s most prestigious literary award makes her American debut with an epic, multigenerational novel-in-verse about two Sámi families and their quest to stay together across a century of migration, violence, and colonial trauma.
$30.00 US
Jan 09, 2024
Hardcover
448 Pages
Knopf
US, Canada, Open Mkt

Young People’s Literature Finalists:

9780593624814
An illuminating novel about the importance of reclaiming the past, based on the author’s family history
$17.99 US
Aug 27, 2024
Hardcover
128 Pages
Nancy Paulsen Books
World

9780593699263
This award-winning, heartfelt coming-of-age novel in verse tells the powerful story of a seventh-grade Syrian American boy and his struggles, big and small, as he navigates middle school. "The exact type of book I would've loved, and needed, as a kid." —Jasmine Warga, New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Honor recipient for Other Words for Home
$18.99 US
Sep 10, 2024
Hardcover
336 Pages
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
World