Overview
- Paul Harding's "This Other Eden" and Justin Torres's "Blackouts" are among the fiction finalists.
- Nonfiction nominees include books by Ned Blackhawk, Cristina Rivera Garza, Christina Sharpe, Raja Shehadeh, and John Vaillant.
- Poetry finalists include Monica Youn, John Lee Clark, Craig Santos Perez, Evie Shockley, and Brandon Som.
- Young people's literature finalists include works by Kenneth M. Cadow, Huda Fahmy, Vashti Harrison, Katherine Marsh, and Dan Santat.
- Translation finalists feature books by Bora Chung, David Diop, Stênio Gardel, Pilar Quintana, and Astrid Roemer.