National Book Award for Fiction 2025— Fiction

Winner

The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)

Rabih Alameddine

Grove Press

National Book · 2025 · Winner

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North Sun: Or, the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther

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Palaver

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