The 2019 National Book Award Winners Need To Be At The Top Of Your Holiday Wish List

The National Book Foundation announced the winners of the 2019 National Book Awards at a Wednesday night ceremony, which means your TBR list just got five books longer. Keep reading to find out more about the winners and finalists of this year's National Book Awards, and go ahead and get your holiday wishlist ready for expansion.

This year's National Book Award winners are less diverse than those of 2018. Last year's awards went exclusively to authors of color, four of whom — including translator Margaret Mitsutani — were women. Although this year's crop of winners is not nearly as diverse, three of the five winning books come from authors of color, and three of the recognized authors — including translator Ottilie Mulzet — are women.

2019 marks the second year that the National Book Foundation has recognized a translated work of literature in its own category. The winner of the 2018 National Book Award for Translated Literature, Yoko Ogawa, had a new novel — The Memory Police — in contention for the prize this year.

Check out the winners of the 2019 National Book Awards below:

Young People's Literature: 1919: The Year That Changed America by Martin W. Sandler

A work of nonfiction for young adults, Martin W. Sandler's 1919: The Year That Changed America examines the impact of women's suffrage, labor movements, racist violence, and the end of World War I on the U.S.

Finalists:

• Pet by Akwaeke Emezi
• Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks by Jason Reynolds
• Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay
• Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All by Laura Ruby

Translated Literature: Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming by László Krasznahorkai, translated by Ottilie Mulzet

The fourth novel in a series that began with Satantango in 1985, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming follows the eponymous figure as he flees gambling debts to return to Hungary, where his bitterly rural hometown may have little to offer and where — he hopes — his childhood sweetheart awaits him.

Finalists:

• Death Is Hard Work by Khaled Khalifa, translated by Leri Price
• The Barefoot Woman by Scholastique Mukasonga, translated by Jordan Stump
• The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder
• Crossing by Pajtim Statovci, translated by David Hackston

Poetry: Sight Lines by Arthur Sze

The 10th collection from Chinese-American poet Arthur Sze, Sight Lines contains more than 30 new poems, which move across the globe and drift back and forth in time to comment on situations both old and new.

Finalists:

• The Tradition by Jericho Brown
• "I": New and Selected Poems by Toi Derricotte
• Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky
• Be Recorder by Carmen Giménez Smith

Nonfiction: The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom

A memoir of growing up in New Orleans East, Sarah M. Broom's The Yellow House is also the story of the titular structure — a beloved home purchased in 1961, where the author's parents raised 12 children in a blended family.

Finalists:

• Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom
• What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance by Carolyn Forché
• The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer
• Solitary by Albert Woodfox with Leslie George

Fiction: Trust Exercise by Susan Choi

Years after Sarah and David's high-school romance ended, an outsider discovers that the story Sarah has told about the events that led to her breakup with David may have been fabricated, and in such a way that even the readers of Trust Exercise will be fooled.

Finalists:

• Sabrina & Corina: Stories by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
• Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
• The Other Americans by Laila Lalami
• Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips