Even through a year of nonstop news about elections, climate change, protests and the price of eggs, Americans still found time to read.

Percival Everett’s “James” has won the National Book Award for fiction.

Percival Everett’s “James” has received yet another literary nomination.

Salman Rushdie’s memoir about his near-fatal stabbing, “Knife,” and Percival Everett’s revisionist historical novel, “James,” are among the finalists for the 75th annual National Book Awards.

American writers Percival Everett and Rachel Kushner have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

Percival Everett’s “James,” his acclaimed retelling of Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” is a fiction nominee for the National Book Awards.

Six American writers are among 13 semifinalists for the Booker Prize for fiction.

Few films have broken out like Cord Jefferson's “American Fiction” has at the Toronto International Film Festival."

Percival Everett and Ling Ma, already two of the year’s most honored writers, are among eight winners of the lucrative Windham-Campbell Prize.

The honors keep coming in for fiction writer-poet Percival Everett.

Fiction by Percival Everett and Ling Ma, nonfiction by Annie Proulx and biographies of George Balanchine and J.

American authors Elizabeth Strout and Percival Everett are up against writers from Britain, Ireland, Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka as finalists for the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction.

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’ “The Love Songs of W.