And the 2015 National Book Award winners are...

The 2015 National Book Awards winners 

were announced last night and the recipients are:

FICTION

WINNER:

Adam Johnson, Fortune Smiles: Stories (Random House)

FINALISTS:

• Karen E. Bender, Refund: Stories 
• Angela Flournoy, The Turner House 
• Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies 
• Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life 

NONFICTION

WINNER:

Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me 

FINALISTS:

• Sally Mann, Hold Still 
• Sy Montgomery, The Soul of an Octopus
• Carla Power, If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran 
• Tracy K. Smith, Ordinary Light 

(click here to see the YA and Poetry winners from the National Book Foundation)