Let's Go to the National Book Awards
Wednesday, November 15th
The National Book Awards are happening on Wednesday, November 15th at 8 PM ET and you are invited!
That’s right, book lovers everywhere can cook up their own fancy meal at home and attend the ceremony virtually. I’ve got my ticket!
Levar Burton is hosting the awards this year (after the writers’ strike kerfuffle with Drew Barrymore shook up the hosting lineup.)
And Oprah will be there too! Other special guests include poet Rita Dove, and City Lights bookseller, Paul Yamazaki.
Click here for a read-along checklist of all twenty-five of this year’s finalists.
I’m kind of shocked / embarrassed that with all the reading I do I’ve only read two books on the ballot so far this year:
Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah:
and Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung:
So how can you register? Simply click here and fill out the form!
Tuesday, November 14th at 7 PM ET
You can also virtually attend the finalist reading. Click here to register.
See you there!
p.s. Have you read any of the finalist books?
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You read one more than I did. It was · A First Time for Everything by Dan Santant
I did read This Other Eden by Paul Harding. An important read based on a true event and I will hear the author speak to our book club next mo th. I have so many questions after reading his book.