Each fall, Miami Book Fair invites the authors and translators of 50 National Book Award longlisted titles to gather in Miami following the National Book Awards Ceremony in New York. Join the 2026 National Book Award honorees in Nonfiction read from and discuss their books and answer your questions about writing, reading, and recognition. Moderated by Natalie Green, director of programs and partnership at the National Book Foundation.
Featured authors: Seasons of Fury: Four Families and the Rise of Islamophobia in America by Rozina Ali offers a searing look at post-9/11 America through the lens of four Muslim families as they navigate prejudice, suspicion, and grief over their loss of the American dream. Abdelrahman ElGendy chronicles his sudden journey from student protestor to political prisoner in Egypt’s most infamous incarceration complex, the Scorpion, exploring how to endure beyond idealism and hope in Huna: A Memoir of Revolution, Prison, and Becoming. Camonghne Felix’s Let the Poets Govern: A Declaration of Freedom is part memoir, part manifesto. Felix draws on stories from her life and her poetic career to explore how words can shape us, overcome dominant power structures, and help us imagine our world differently. In Joseph Osmundson’s Spawning Season: An Experiment in Queer Parenthood, a queer microbiologist agrees to become a bio-dad for a lesbian couple, aptly blending memoir and science writing to grapple with what family-making means beyond biology. Wendy S. Walter’s Dead White: An Argument Against White Paint critiques the unexamined background color of our lives, asking whether white paint is truly the neutral aesthetic we assume it is, and challenges us to view decor through social, political, and national identity.
Buy Seasons of Fury: Four Families and the Rise of Islamophobia in America
Buy Huna: A Memoir of Revolution, Prison, and Becoming
Buy Let the Poets Govern: A Declaration of Freedom