National Book Award

Inside Out & Back Again By Lai, Thanhha

Salvage the Bones A Novel By Ward, Jesmyn

Swerve: How the World Became Modern, The By Greenblatt, Stephen

Just Kids By Smith, Patti

Lighthead

Lord of Misrule By Gordon, Jaimy

Mockingbird (Mok'ing-burd) By Erskine, Kathryn

Claudette Colvin Twice Toward Justice By Hoose, Phillip M.

Let the Great World Spin By McCann, Colum

The First Tycoon The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt By Stiles, T. J.