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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James extols the virtues of literacy, self-naming, entelechy, and freedom, while showing us that these virtues mean little if they are expressed merely for the self. The protagonist carries us to a greener territory... where signifying is for beauty's sake-never again because of the whip.

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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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Based on seven years of fieldwork... Soldiers and Kings is an engrossing narrative about the human desire for freedom. This profoundly political book holds the US to account for its cruelty, without getting lost in the bizarre American politics of "border walls."

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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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In Taiwan Travelogue, Yáng Shuang-zi takes us on a metafictional voyage through the cuisines, customs, and landmarks of Taiwan under Japanese rule. A translation of a novel disguised as a translation of a rediscovered text, this is a sweeping tale of colonialism and impossible friendship.

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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