The longlists for this year’s National Book Awards have been announced. Here they are in full.
Fiction
- The Throwback Special by Chris Bachelder
- What Belongs To You by Garth Greenwell
- Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett
- News of the World by Paulette Jiles
- The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan
- The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie
- Sweet Lamb of Heaven by Lydia Millet
- Miss Jane by Brad Watson
- The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
- Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
Nonfiction
- America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History by Andrew J. Bacevich
- The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice by Patricia Bell-Scott
- Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck by Adam Cohen
- Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right by Arlie Russell Hochschild
- Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
- Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War by Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O’Neil
- T by Andrés Reséndez
- The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition by Manisha Sinha
- Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson
Poetry
- The Performance of Becoming Human by Daniel Borzutzky
- Collected Poems 1974 – 2004 by Rita Dove
- Archeophonics by Peter Gizzi
- The Selected Poems of Donald Hall by Donald Hall
- The Abridged History of Rainfall by Jay Hopler
- Bestiary by Donika Kelly
- World of Made and Unmade by Jane Mead
- Look by Solmaz Sharif
- Blackacre by Monica Youn
- Blue Laws by Kevin Young
Young People’s Literature
- Booked by Kwame Alexander
- Raymie Nightingale by Kate DiCamillo
- March: Book Three by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell
- When the Sea Turned to Silver by Grace Lin
- When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore
- Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina
- Pax by Sara Pennypacker and Jon Klassen
- Ghost by Jason Reynolds
- Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor’s Story by Caren Stelson
- The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon