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| Bank Square Books, Mystic, Connecticut, owned by one of this year’s National Book Award judges for fiction. |
The National Book Foundation, presenter of the annual National Book Award announced the semi-finalists for 2017’s awards in fiction. The finalists will be announced October 4 with the NBA Gala announcing the winners in fiction on November 15.
Elliot Ackerman, “Dark at the Crossing”
Knopf / Penguin Random House
Daniel Alarcón, “The King Is Always Above the People: Stories”
Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House
Charmaine Craig, “Miss Burma”
Grove Press / Grove Atlantic
Jennifer Egan, “Manhattan Beach”
Scribner / Simon & Schuster
Lisa Ko, “The Leavers”
Algonquin Books / Workman
Min Jin Lee, “Pachinko”
Grand Central Publishing / Hachette
Carmen Maria Machado, “Her Body and Other Parties: Stories”
Graywolf Press
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, “A Kind of Freedom”
Counterpoint Press
Jesmyn Ward, “Sing, Unburied, Sing”
Scribner / Simon & Schuster
Carol Zoref, “Barren Island”
New Issues Poetry & Prose
Judges to date:
Alexander Chee, author
Dave Eggers, publisher, author
Annie Philbrick, book store owner
Karolina Waclawiak, author
Chair, Jacqueline Woodson, author
National Book Foundation reported 394 books were submitted for consideration and culled to ten by the judges. Eligibility for the award was limited to novels/collections published between December 1, 2016 and November 30, 2017.
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