National Book Foundation Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Read an excerpt from THE SUNBEARER TRIALS by #NBAwards Longlister Aiden Thomas (@aidenschmaiden). | @tordotcom https://t.co/nCt8OQMd4r

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Congratulations to #NBAwards Longlister Kelly Lytle Hernández (@klytlehernandez)! BAD MEXICANS is among the winners of this year’s Bancroft Prize. | @nytimes https://t.co/0ZlBesEF6I

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"The research that helped me the most were oral histories, which I mined for what I call the 'minutiae of deprivation.'" - Tayari Jones on the research done for her novel An American Marriage #EDBL

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"When I was working on this book (it took me over 10 years), it felt like I was visiting my friends and my family and would make me feel really at home and warm." #NBAwards Finalist Kali Fajardo-Anstine talks about her novel, WOMAN OF LIGHT. | @CPRNews https://t.co/h9ydtvkb2o

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On April 13 @RainTaxiReview hosts #NBAwards Winner @Nate_Powell_Art for a virtual event for his new book Save It for Later: Promises, Parenthood, and the Urgency of Protest https://t.co/VQgiVDaBJu https://t.co/Bj6kLN0l3w

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ME (MOTH) by #NBAwards Finalist Amber McBride (@ambsmcbride) is the YA Read Across America book for July! | @NEAToday https://t.co/0UVe4ariDe

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BITTER by #NBAward Finalist Akwaeke Emezi (@azemezi) and LAKELORE by #NBAward Longlister Anna-Marie McLemore (@LaAnnaMarie) are among @BuzzFeed's most anticipated YA books releasing in 2022. | @BuzzFeedBooks https://t.co/ZdnHfbgYyC

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Congrats to three-time #NBAwards Finalist Rita Williams-Garcia, @OneCrazyRita, for winning the 2021 Boston Globe–@HornBook Award for Fiction and Poetry for A Sitting in St. James! | #BGHB21 https://t.co/1ldReyRemJ

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For @wwborders, #NBAwards Longlister Anna Badkhen considers the parallels between Yiyun Li’s THE BOOK OF GOOSE and one of her own childhood friendships. https://t.co/CmFCVzpb5T

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"Everyone who lives near the lake knows the stories about the world underneath it, an ethereal landscape rumored to be half-air, half-water." Read an excerpt from LAKELORE by #NBAwards-honored author Anna-Marie McLemore (@LaAnnaMarie). | @tordotcom https://t.co/4SRTT1f64v