The National Book Awards longlist has since made an official announcement. The National Book Awards are a set of annual U.S. literary awards which present the Awards in four categories—fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and young people’s literature—and a lifetime achievement award to authors who have contributed greatly to American letters.

The finalists in all categories will be revealed on Tuesday, October 4th.

The nonfiction longlist:

Anna Badkhen, Bright Unbearable Reality: Essays

New York Review Books

John A. Farrell, Ted Kennedy: A Life

Penguin Press / Penguin Random House

Natalie Hodges, Uncommon Measure: A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time

Bellevue Literary Press

Kelly Lytle Hernández, Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands

W. W. Norton & Company

Meghan O’Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness

Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House

Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

Ecco / HarperCollins Publishers

David Quammen, Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus

Simon & Schuster

Ingrid Rojas Contreras, The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir

Doubleday / Penguin Random House 

Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa, His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice

Viking Books / Penguin Random House

Kathryn Schulz, Lost & Found: A Memoir

Random House / Penguin Random House

The Poetry Longlist:

Rio Cortez, Golden Ax

Penguin Books / Penguin Random House

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke, Look at This Blue

Coffee House Press

Jay Hopler, Still Life

McSweeney’s

John Keene, Punks: New & Selected Poems

The Song Cave

Sharon Olds, Balladz

Alfred A. Knopf / Penguin Random House

Roger Reeves, Best Barbarian

W. W. Norton & Company

Sherry Shenoda, Mummy Eaters

University of Nebraska Press

Quincy Troupe, Duende

Seven Stories Press

Shelley Wong, As She Appears

YesYes Books

Jenny Xie, The Rupture Tense

Graywolf Press

The Translated Literature Longlist

Mohammed Hasan Alwan, Ibn Arabi’s Small Death

Translated from the Arabic by William M. Hutchins

Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin

Jon Fosse, A New Name: Septology VI-VII

Translated from the Norwegian by Damion Searls

Transit Books

Shahriar Mandanipour, Seasons of Purgatory

Translated from the Persian by Sara Khalili

Bellevue Literary Press

Scholastique Mukasonga, Kibogo

Translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti

Archipelago Books

Mónica Ojeda, Jawbone

Translated from the Spanish by Sarah Booker

Coffee House Press

Olga Ravn, The Employees

Translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken

New Directions Publishing

Samanta Schweblin, Seven Empty Houses

Translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell

Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House

Saša Stanišić, Where You Come From

Translated from the German by Damion Searls

Tin House Books

Yoko Tawada, Scattered All Over the Earth

Translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani

New Directions Publishing

Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob

Translated from the Polish by Jennifer Croft

Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House

The fiction longlist:

Jonathan Escoffery, “If I Survive You”

MCD / Farrar, Straus & Giroux / Macmillan Publishers

Tess Gunty, “The Rabbit Hutch”

Alfred A. Knopf / Penguin Random House

Gayl Jones, “The Birdcatcher”

Beacon Press

Jamil Jan Kochai, “The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories”

Viking Books / Penguin Random House

Sarah Thankam Mathews, “All This Could Be Different”

Viking Books / Penguin Random House

Leigh Newman, “Nobody Gets Out Alive”

Scribner / Simon & Schuster

Marytza K. Rubio, “Maria, Maria: & Other Stories”

Liveright / W. W. Norton & Company

Alejandro Varela, “The Town of Babylon”

Astra House / Astra Publishing House

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