NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION PRESENTS: LIGHTNING ROUND WITH THE 2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS – ALL GENRES
The 2025 honorees across all five National Book Award categories – including Gbenga Adesina, María Dolores Águila, K. Ancrum, Jazmina Barrera, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Cathy Linh Che, Susan Choi, Tiana Clark, Angela Flournoy, Caleb Gayle, Julia Ioffe, Hamid Ismailov, Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Rickey Laurentiis, Esther Lin, Lana Lin, Megha Majumdar, Kevin Moffett, Daniel Nayeri, Ben Ratliff, Claudia Rowe, Karen Russell, Ethan Rutherford, Hannah V. Sawyerr, Natalie Shapero, Richard Siken, Patricia Smith, Nilo Tabrizy, Jordan Thomas, Maria van Lieshout, Helen Whybrow, and Ibi Zoboi – share rapid-fire readings and speak with Ruth Dickey, National Book Foundation executive director.
PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP
Buy Death Does Not End at the Sea – Adesina
Buy A Sea of Lemon Trees: The Corrido of Roberto Alvarez – Águila
Buy The Corruption of Hollis Brown – Ancrum
Buy The Queen of Swords – Barrera
Buy The New Economy – Calvocoressi
Buy Becoming Ghost: Poems – Che
Buy Flashlight: A Novel – Choi
Buy Scorched Earth: Poems – Clark
Buy The Wilderness: A Novel – Flournoy
Buy Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State – Gayle
Buy Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy – Ioffe
Buy We Computers: A Ghazal Novel (The Margellos World Republic of Letters) – Ismailov
Buy The Sisters: A Novel – Khemiri
Buy Death of the First Idea: Poems – Laurentiis
Buy The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam – Lin
Buy A Guardian and a Thief: A Novel – Majumdar
Buy The Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story – Nayeri
Buy Run the Song: Writing About Running About Listening – Ratliff
Buy Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care – Rowe
Buy The Antidote: A Novel – Russell
Buy North Sun: Or, the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther – Rutherford
Buy I Do Know Some Things – Siken
Buy The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems – Smith
Buy For the Sun After Long Nights: The Story of Iran’s Women-Led Uprising – Tabrizy
Buy When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World – Thomas
Buy Song of a Blackbird – van Lieshout
Buy The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd’s Life – Whybrow
