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
