The National Book Awards are coming up. When they had their long list, I had this post about how to use the award as a resource.

(Look I am still big mad that The Buffalo Hunter Hunter was not on the list but I digress.)

Over on LitHub, they did quick interviews with the nominees. Since readers will be asking for these books in the coming days and weeks, I want to point you to these because they will help you hand-sell these titles to their best reader. 

These questions are truly quick and very conversational. Things like "What is the first book you fell in love with (and why)?" or "What would you do if you weren't a writer?" Many titles are also mentioned throughout these short interviews.

Think about the fun display you could put up to celebrate The National Book Awards. Displays that go above and beyond the books and backlist nominees. Again, click here for my post on how to use these awards as a resource. 

These interviews from LitHub are a great place to find fun display ideas and to help you share tidbits about these books and authors with your readers. Here is the into of the piece: 

The winners of the 76th National Book Awards—given every year in Young People’s Literature, Translation, Poetry, Nonfiction, and Fiction—will be announced next week in a ceremony hosted by Jeff Hiller at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.

Ahead of the festivities, Literary Hub caught up with the finalists to ask them a bit about their books, their reading habits, and their writing lives.

Click here to read the interviews.