The Underground Railroad (novel)

The Underground Railroad

Author	Colson Whitehead
Country	United States
Language	English
Publisher	Doubleday (publisher)
Publication date	August 2, 2016
Pages	320
ISBN	978-0-385-54236-4

The Underground Railroad is a 2016 novel by American author Colson Whitehead. It tells the story of Cora and Caesar, two slaves who make a bid for freedom from their Georgia plantations by following the Underground Railroad.^[1]

This was Whitehead's sixth published novel, and it received the National Book Award for Fiction in 2016.^[1]When it was published in the United States in August 2016, it was selected for Oprah's Book Club.^[2]

References

National Book Award for Fiction (2000–2024)

In America by Susan Sontag (2000) The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (2001) Three Junes by Julia Glass (2002) The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard (2003) The News from Paraguay by Lily Tuck (2004) Europe Central by William T. Vollmann (2005) The Echo Maker by Richard Powers (2006) Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson (2007) Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen (2008) Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann (2009) Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon (2010) Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward (2011) The Round House by Louise Erdrich (2012) The Good Lord Bird by James McBride (2013) Redeployment by Phil Klay (2014) Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson (2015) The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (2016)

Complete list (1950–1974) (1975–1999) (2000–2024)

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