Everyone’s favorite grand slam event is back at Miami Book Fair! For 13 years and counting, the Fair and the National Book Foundation have come together to present the biggest in-person showcase of National Book Award-honored authors anywhere in the country. 2026 honorees across all five National Book Award categories – Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature – will share rapid-fire readings from their recognized works and be interviewed by Ruth Dickey, executive director of the National Book Foundation.

Buy The Free Verse Society – Adjoa

Buy Seasons of Fury: Four Families and the Rise of Islamophobia in America – Ali

Buy Paradiso 17: A Novel – Assadi

Buy Red Ants: Stories – Blaeser

Buy The Celestial Seas – Chan

Buy Dèy: A Novel – Danticat

Buy Pretend You’re Dead and I Carry You: A Novel – Delgado Lopera

Buy Hide: Poems – Ebeid

Buy Huna: A Memoir of Revolution, Prison, and Becoming – ElGendy

Buy Let the Poets Govern: A Declaration of Freedom – Felix

Buy That Which Feeds Us: A Sunnie Reads Select: A Hawaiian Gothic – Kendall

Buy Promise/Threat: Poems – Mixon-Webster

Buy Centuroeuropa – Mora / Bery

Buy The Renovation: A Novel – Orhan

Buy Spawning Season: An Experiment in Queer Parenthood – Osmundson

Buy The Evolution of Fire: Essays on Crisis and Becoming – Pelster

Buy Night of a Thousand Hells: A Novel – Paramaditha/Epstein/Tsao

Buy Horses: Poems – Skeets

Buy Bramble – Stewart

Buy Life on the Moon – Swanson/Behr

Buy Mad Eden: A Novel – Thomas

Buy Dead White: An Argument Against White Paint – Walters