These books just nabbed National Book Awards, among the most coveted prizes in the literary world. How many have you read?

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National Book Awards judges honored authors worldwide on Wednesday night, from Lebanese novelist Rabih Alameddine’s “The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)” to Chicago-born poet ...

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The National Book Awards’ 2025 fiction prize went to The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother), by Rabih Alameddine, a novel about a lapsed writer living unhappily with his mom in ...

Rabih Alameddine’s “The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)” won in fiction, while Omar El Akkad’s reckoning with Gaza took the nonfiction prize.

Based on a viral tweet the author sent early into the Israel-Gaza war, the book maligns Western liberalism for, in El Akkad’s telling, turning its back on Palestinian suffering.

When Kevin Moffett woke up one morning in September, he didn’t expect to see his debut novel, “Only Son,” on the National Book Award longlist. He hadn’t even realized the book – due out Nov. 4 – was ...

Gokhale — only the fifth recipient of the honour after Ruskin Bond, Sudha Murty, Shashi Tharoor and Amitav Ghosh — received ...