Each year, the National Book Awards are given to one book in 5 different categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translation, and young people’s literature. This year’s winners will be announced on Nov. 15 at the 74th National Book Awards Ceremony in New York City, which will be hosted by actor and literary advocate LeVar Burton. The list of finalists has been released, so it’s a good time to check out some of these wonderful books ahead of the ceremony!
One of the front-runners in the fiction category is “This Other Eden,” a novel by Paul Harding about a small, mixed-race community living on an island off the state of Maine, the members of which are forcibly removed (and, some, institutionalized) by eugenics-embracing state officials. The…
