The longlists for the 2024 National Book Awards have been announced! Discover the longlists for Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry below.

Established in 1950, the National Book Awards is an American literary prize, administered by the National Book Foundation. Previous winners include American literary icons such as William Faulkner, Philip Roth, John Updike, Toni Morrison, Flannery O’Connor, Alice Walker, Jesmyn Ward, and Ta-Nehisi Coates.

While other categories have been recognized in the past, the Awards currently honour the best Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature and Young People’s Literature published each year. See the longlists for Translated Literature and Young People's Literature on our blog here.

Fiction Longlist

• All Fours by Miranda July
• James by Percival Everett
• Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
• My Friends by Hisham Matar
• Ghostroots by ‘Pemi Aguda
• Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
• The Most by Jessica Anthony
• Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
• Yr Dead by Sam Sax
• Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte

Nonfiction Longlist

• Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia by Kate Manne
• Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
• There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib
• The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives by Ernest Scheyder
• Our Moon: How Earth’s Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are by Rebecca Boyle
• Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling by Jason De León
• Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church by Eliza Griswold
• A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America by Richard Slotkin
• Whiskey Tender by Deborah Jackson Taffa
• Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal

Poetry Longlist

• Wrong Norma by Anne Carson
• [...] by Fady Joudah
• Life on Earth by Dorianne Laux
• Spectral Evidence by Gregory Pardlo
• Silver by Rowan Ricardo Phillips
• The Book of Wounded Sparrows by Octavio Quintanilla
• mother by m.s. RedCherries
• Modern Poetry by Diane Seuss
• Something About Living by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
• Liontaming in America by Elizabeth Willis