National Book Festival 2023

The National Book Festival was co-founded in 2001 by first lady Laura Bush with the Library of Congress. The festival celebrates creators and draws thousands of readers together each year to engage with writers and the national library. This festival’s theme, “Everyone Has a Story,” celebrates the storyteller in us all.

Book lovers across the nation can join the 2023 Library of Congress National Book Festival on PBS Books, which will host a series of virtual interviews with some of the festival’s featured authors July 20-August 31 in partnership with PBS stations across the country.

You can find the full list of authors here, and links to the PBS Author talks here.




Updated July 19, 2023
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Family Lore
Acevedo, Elizabeth.
Paper Book
'Family Lore is full of beautiful prose, even-handed magic and all the pains and triumphs of intergenerational bonds' KILEY REID, author of Such A Fun AgeThe Marte women are preparing for a gathering that will change their lives foreverFlor has a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will...
Warrior girl unearthed
Boulley, Angeline
Paper Book
#1 New York Times bestselling author Angeline Boulley takes us back into the world of Firekeeper's Daughter in this high-stakes mystery about the power of discovering your stolen history A Waterstones Best YA Books of 2023 A Financial Times Best YA Summer Book 2023<...
Promise boys
Brooks, Nick
Paper Book
Nick Brooks's Promise Boys is a trailblazing, blockbuster YA mystery about three teen boys of colour who must investigate their principal's murder to clear their own names. For fans of Angie Thomas, Jason Reynolds, and Karen McManus.The Urban Promise Prep School vows to turn boys into men. As...
All the sinners bleed
Cosby, S. A.
Paper Book
G-man : J. Edgar Hoover and the making of the American century
Gage, Beverly
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography 2023 Winner of the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography Winner of the 2023 Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy Winner of the American History Book Prize Shortlisted for the...
The getaway
Giles, Lamar
Paper Book
  'Timely, thrilling, and gripping from start to finish. An absolute page-turner.' --KAREN M. MCMANUS, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OFONE OF US IS LYING NO ONE HAS EVER DIED IN KARLOFF COUNTY Welcome to the funnest place around . . . Jay is living his best life inside Karloff...
The Wager : a tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder
Grann, David
Paper Book
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER  *LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 BALLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION* *SELECTED AS ONE OF  BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2023* 'The beauty of The...
How to sell a haunted house
Hendrix, Grady
Paper Book
New York Times bestselling author Grady Hendrix takes on the haunted house in a hilarious and terrifying new novel that explores the way your past -- and your family -- can haunt you like nothing else... Louise's parents...
Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide.
Izgil, Tahir Hamut.
Paper Book
A Uyghur poet's piercing memoir of life under the most coercive surveillance regime in history ***LITHUB'S #1 BEST-REVIEWED NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023*** **A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023** **AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023** *WINNER OF THE...
In the lives of puppets
Klune, TJ
Paper Book
From New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune, In the Lives of Puppets is a queer retelling of the Pinocchio tale, inviting you deep into the heart of a peculiar forest and on the extraordinary journey of a family assembled from spare parts.In a strange little home built into the branches of a...
I have some questions for you
Makkai, Rebecca
Paper Book
**A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK FOR OPRAH DAILY, TIME, NPR, USA TODAY, BUSTLE, STAR TRIBUNE, GOOD HOUSEKEEPING AND MORE** 'Whip-smart and uncompromising' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 'Quietly riveting' IRISH TIMES 'It's the perfect crime' NEW...
One of us is lying
McManus, Karen M.
Paper Book
The international bestselling YA thriller by acclaimed author, Karen M. McManus - NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES. Book One of the Bayview Trilogy. Five students walk into detention. Only four come out alive. Yale hopeful Bronwyn has never...
The song of the cell an exploration of medicine and the new human
Mukherjee, Siddhartha
Paper Book
From the author of The Emperor of All Maladies, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and The Gene, a #1 New York Times bestseller, comes his most spectacular book yet, about the fundamental unit of life. Rich with Mukherjee's revelatory and exhilarating stories of scientists,...
White Bird: A Novel: Based on the Graphic Novel
Palacio, R. J.
Paper Book
From the bestselling author of Wondercomes White Bird- an unforgettable Second World War story about bravery, friendship and the power of kindness. Now a major film starring Ariella Glaser, Orlando Schwerdt, Bryce Gheisar, Helen Mirren and Gillian Anderson. Sara...
Liberation day : stories
Saunders, George
Paper Book
Named a book of the year 2022 by the Sunday Times, The Times, Guardian, Irish Times, New Statesman, BBC and Waterstones'One of the best science fiction short stories to be published in the 21st century so far' SFX Review 'Saunders is funny...
The Kaiju Preservation Society
Scalzi, John
Paper Book
Shortlisted for the 2023 Hugo Award for Best Novel Jurassic Park meets Parks & Recreation in The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi - a thrilling, fast-paced adventure set on an alternate Earth. 'John Scalzi is the most...
The Lincoln highway
Towles, Amor
Paper Book
THE INSTANT NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF RULES OF CIVILITYAND A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW 'Deserves a place alongside Kerouac, Steinbeck and Wolfe as the very best of the genre' OBSERVER 'An...
Remarkably bright creatures : a novel
Van Pelt, Shelby
Paper Book
**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**OVER 1.5 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDEBBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICKOVER 29,000 5 STAR REVIEWSGOOD HOUSEKEEPING BEST BOOKS OF 2022GLAMOUR BEST BOOKS OF 2022'Remarkably Bright Creatures [is] an ultimately feel-good but deceptively...
Sing, unburied, sing : a novel
Ward, Jesmyn
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2017ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2017SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE NEW STATESMAN, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK...
Song of silver, flame like night
Zhao, Ame?lie Wen
Ebook
In a fallen kingdom, one girl carries the key to discovering the secrets of her nation's past - and unleashing the demons that sleep at its heart. An epic new fantasy duology inspired by Chinese mythology. Once, Lan had a different name. Now, she goes by the one the Elantian colonizers...

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