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Who will take home this year’s National Book Awards? Make your predictions here, and find out who wins on November 20th when the 70th National Book YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE Akwaeke Emezi, Pet Awards will be streamed via Facebook Make Me a World / Penguin Random House

Live. The stream will also be available at Jason Reynolds, Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks our website, nationalbook.org Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books / Simon & Schuster Randy Ribay, Patron Saints of Nothing Kokila / Penguin Random House

Laura Ruby, Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All Balzer + Bray / HarperCollins Publishers

Martin W. Sandler, 1919 The Year That Changed America TRANSLATED LITERATURE Bloomsbury Children’s Books / Bloomsbury Publishing Khaled Khalifa, Death Is Hard Work Translated by Leri Price Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers

László Krasznahorkai, Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming Translated by Ottilie Mulzet New Directions POETRY Jericho Brown, The Tradition Scholastique Mukasonga, The Barefoot Woman Copper Canyon Press Translated by Jordan Stump Archipelago Books Toi Derricotte, “I”: New and Selected Poems University of Pittsburgh Press Yoko Ogawa, The Memory Police Translated by Stephen Snyder Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic Pantheon Books / Penguin Random House Graywolf Press

Pajtim Statovci, Crossing Carmen Giménez Smith, Be Recorder Translated by David Hackston Graywolf Press Pantheon Books / Penguin Random House Arthur Sze, Sight Lines Copper Canyon Press

NONFICTION Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House Grove Press / Grove Atlantic FICTION Susan Choi, Trust Exercise Tressie McMillan Cottom, Thick: And Other Essays Henry Holt and Company / Macmillan Publishers The New Press Kali Fajardo-Anstine, Sabrina & Corina: Stories Carolyn Forché, What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of One World / Penguin Random House Witness and Resistance Penguin Press / Penguin Random House Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House David Treuer, The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present Laila Lalami, The Other Americans Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House Pantheon Books / Penguin Random House

Albert Woodfox with Leslie George, Solitary Julia Phillips, Disappearing Earth Grove Press / Grove Atlantic Alfred A. Knopf / Penguin Random House