The Underground Railroad (novel)

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, which in this novel becomes an actual underground subway.

This was Whitehead's sixth published novel, and it received the National Book Award for Fiction in 2016. When it was published in the United States in August 2016, it was selected for Oprah's Book Club. On January 22, 2017 the American Library Association awarded it the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence.