Bennett, Majumdar, Veselka, Yu Among 12 PRH 2020 NBA Semi-Finalists
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Last, but never, ever least, of the 2020 National Book Award Long listers published by Penguin Random House, are these just-announced Fiction entries:
THE VANISHING HALF by Brit Bennett (Riverhead Books HC & Ebook; Penguin Audio)
Edited by Sarah McGrath
A BURNING by Megha Majumdar (Alfred A. Knopf HC & Ebook; RH Audio; McClelland & Stewart HC & Ebook in Canada)
Edited in the U.S. by Jordan Pavlin
Edited in Canada by Jared Bland
THE GREAT OFFSHORE GROUNDS by Vanessa Veselka (Alfred A. Knopf HC & Ebook; RH Audio)
Edited by Tim O’Connell
INTERIOR CHINATOWN by Charles Yu (Pantheon Books HC & Ebook; RH Audio)
Edited by Tim O’Connell
Recapping our nominees in Young People’s Literature, Translated Literature, and Nonfiction— 12 in total, including Fiction.
Young Peoples Literature
LIFTING AS WE CLIMB: Black Women’s Battle for the Ballot Box by Evette Dionne (Viking Books for Young Readers HC & Ebook)
Edited by Jenny Bak
EVERY BODY LOOKING by Candice Iloh (Dutton Books for Young Readers HC, PB, Ebook & Listening Library Audio)
Edited by Andrew Karre
WHEN STARS ARE SCATTERED by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohamed (Dial Books for Young Readers HC, Ebook & LL Audio)
Edited by Kate Harrison
HOW WE GOT TO THE MOON: The People, Technology, and Daring Feats of Science Behind Humanity’s Greatest Adventure by John Rocco (Crown Books for Young Readers HC & Ebook)
Edited by Emily Easton
THE WAY BACK by Gavriel Savit (Knopf Books for Young Readers HC & E-book; Listening Library Audio)
Edited by Erin Clarke
From Penguin Random House Publisher Services client Candlewick Press, Trowbridge Road by Marcella Pixley.
Translated Literature
TOKYO UENO STATION by Yu Miri. Translated, from the Japanese, by Morgan Giles (Riverhead Books HC & Ebook; Penguin Audio)
Edited by Laura Perciasepe
Nonfiction
THE UNDOCUMENTED AMERICANS by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio (One World HC & Ebook; RH Audio)
Edited by Chris Jackson
CASTE: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson (Random House HC & Ebook; RH Audio)
Edited by Kate Medina
The morning of Tuesday, October 6, we will learn the five Finalists shortlisted by each categories’ judges. The evening of Wednesday, November 18, we will know the five winners.
We begin our rooting now.