National Book Foundation Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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#NBAwards Winner Colson Whitehead talks to Alison Stewart about his novel, HARLEM SHUFFLE. | @AllOfItWNYC https://t.co/N7caSdhkVO

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Emily St. John Mandel (@EmilyMandel) talks to @IsaacFitzgerald about the Station Eleven adaptation (@Station11onmax), being homeschooled in rural Canada, and releasing two books during the pandemic. https://t.co/nbbJZdqbU6

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#NBAwards Finalist Anthony Doerr talks to Mary Beth Keane about the inspiration for CLOUD CUCKOO LAND and its focus on technology, destruction, preservation, and humanity’s vast interconnectedness. | @aspenideas https://www.aspenideas.org/podcasts/a-conversation-with-author-anthony-doerr

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Congratulations to #NBAwards Finalist Robert Jones Jr. (@SonofBaldwin), winner of The Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction for THE PROPHETS! | @pubtri https://t.co/ESI0WM3y3b

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BLACK FOLK COULD FLY "provide[s] rare insight into Kenan’s life and mind, while retaining the humor, humanity and elegant power for which he is loved." A review of #NBAwards Longlister Randall Kenan's posthumous essay collection. | @nytimesbooks https://t.co/QgjVofTmio

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"I want you to know that the publication of Gatsby broke Fitzgerald’s heart, and he did not recover from it." #NBAwards Finalist @minjinlee11 on the impact of The Great Gatsby on the writer and herself @nybooks https://t.co/co2FCdxpX9

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#NBAwards-honored author Jennifer Egan (@Egangoonsquad) on the book that shaped her worldview, INTERIOR CHINATOWN, and why she wants her copy of THE VANISHING HALF signed by Brit Bennett. | @ELLEmagazine https://www.elle.com/culture/books/a39451152/shelf-life-jennifer-egan/

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Viet Thanh Nguyen’s book Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War was a finalist for the #NBAwards in nonfiction. His novel The Sympathizer is a New York Times bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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BREATHLESS by #NBAwards-honored David Quammen and TED KENNEDY by #NBAwards-honored John A. Farrell are featured on @OprahDaily's list of the best fall nonfiction books of 2022. https://t.co/3e0Zv9TXSH

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"Ultimately, for all the vexed duplicities mapped in this volume, the most vexing—and ravishing—duplicity is that of art itself." @nytimes reviews FROM FROM, #NBAwards-honored poet Monica Youn's (@MonicaYoun) latest collection. https://t.co/2i9KAP8XmK