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Here are the finalists for the 2026 National Book Awards
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PUBLISHEDOct 6, 2026, 2:30 PM
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Three-time National Book Award finalist Edwidge Danticat and debut novelist Morgan Thomas are up for the fiction prize. Nonfiction books cover the prison system and music, and queer parenthood.
Main source: NPR
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