Winners and Finalists for the 2023 National Book Awards

The mission of the National Book Foundation is to celebrate the best literature published in the United States, expand its audience, and ensure that books have a prominent place in our culture. Check out the 2023 National Book Awards winners — Justin Torres’s Blackouts, Ned Blackhawk’s The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History, Craig Santos Perez’s from unincorporated territory [åmot], and Stênio Gardel’s The Words That Remain, tr. by Bruna Dantas Lobato. You can see the list of the winners and finalists that are available at MCFL below so you can read a few of these options yourself.