Penguin Random House Fiction Finalists for the 2018 National Book Awards

By Luis Diaz | October 29 2018 | Humanities & Social Sciences

Presenting the five finalists for the 2018 National Book Awards published by Penguin Random House

 

 

Fiction:

  • FLORIDA by Lauren Groff (Riverhead Books, Penguin Audio)
  • THE GREAT BELIEVERS by Rebecca Makkai (Viking Books, Penguin Audio)
  • THE FRIEND by Sigrid Nunez (Riverhead Books, Penguin Audio)

Poetry:

Translated Literature:

  • FLIGHTS by Olga Tokarczuk, Translated by Jennifer Croft (Riverhead Books, Penguin Audio)

 

And, from our Penguin Random House Publisher Services clients:

 

There are five shortlisted titles in each group, selected by a respective panel of judges, who will choose the winners the day of the annual National Book Foundation Awards dinner, to be held on Wednesday, November 14 in Manhattan.

Congratulations to these nominees!

Florida
Florida
Lauren Groff
978-1-59463-451-2
The bold new book from the celebrated New York Times-bestselling author of Fates and Furies.
$27.00 US
Jun 05, 2018
Hardcover
288 Pages
Riverhead Books
The Friend (National Book Award Winner)
The Friend (National Book Award Winner)
A Novel
Sigrid Nunez
978-0-7352-1944-1
"Nunez's prose itself comforts us. Her confident and direct style uplifts--the music in her sentences, her deep and varied intelligence." -The New York Times Book Review"A penetrating, moving meditation on loss, comfort, memory...Nunez has a wry, withering wit." -NPRA moving story of love, friendship, grief, healing, and the magical bond between a woman and her dog.
$25.00 US
Feb 06, 2018
Hardcover
224 Pages
Riverhead Books
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
Terrance Hayes
978-0-14-313318-6
Finalist for the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry One of the New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2018A powerful, timely, dazzling collection of sonnets from one of America's most acclaimed poets, Terrance Hayes, the National Book Award winning author of Lighthead"Sonnets that reckon with Donald Trump's America." -The New York Times
$18.00 US
Jun 19, 2018
Paperback
112 Pages
Penguin Books
Flights
Flights
Nobel Prize and Booker Prize Winner
Olga Tokarczuk
978-0-525-53419-8
2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR TRANSLATED LITERATUREWINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZENAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2018 BY ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, THE WASHINGTON POST, BOSTON GLOBE, LITHUB AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLYSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 WARWICK PRIZE FOR WOMEN IN TRANSLATIONA visionary work of fiction by "A writer on the level of W. G. Sebald" (Annie Proulx)"A magnificent writer." --Svetlana Alexievich, Nobel Prize-winning author of Secondhand Time"A beautifully fragmented look at man's longing for permanence.... Ambitious and complex." --Washington Post
$26.00 US
Aug 14, 2018
Hardcover
416 Pages
Riverhead Books
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