It’s the most wonderful time of the year. That time when the longlists for the National Book Awards are announced. Click on the covers to put any of these on hold.
Here are the nominees by category for the National Book Awards:
POETRY
- Daniel Borzutzky, The Performance of Becoming Human (Brooklyn Arts Press)
- Rita Dove, Collected Poems 1974 – 2004 (W. W. Norton & Company)
- Peter Gizzi, Archeophonics (Wesleyan University Press)
- Donald Hall, The Selected Poems of Donald Hall (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- Jay Hopler, The Abridged History of Rainfall (McSweeney’s)
- Donika Kelly, Bestiary (Graywolf Press)
- Jane Mead, World of Made and Unmade (Alice James Books)
- Solmaz Sharif, Look (Graywolf Press)
- Monica Youn, Blackacre (Graywolf Press)
- Kevin Young, Blue Laws (Alfred A. Knopf)
NONFICTION
- Andrew J. Bacevich, America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History
(Random House/Penguin Random House)
- Patricia Bell-Scott, The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice (Alfred A. Knopf /Penguin Random House)
- Adam Cohen, Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck (Penguin Press/Penguin Random House)
- Arlie Russell Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right (The New Press)
- Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Nation Books)
- Viet Thanh Nguyen, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
(Harvard University Press)
- Cathy O’Neil, Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (Crown Publishing Group/Penguin Random House)
- Andrés Reséndez, The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- Manisha Sinha, The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition (Yale University Press)
- Heather Ann Thompson, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Pantheon Books/Penguin Random House)
FICTION
- Chris Bachelder, The Throwback Special (W. W. Norton & Company)
- Garth Greenwell, What Belongs to You (Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Macmillan)
- Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone (Little, Brown and Company/Hachette Book Group)
- Paulette Jiles, News of the World (William Morrow/HarperCollinsPublishers)
- Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs (Viking Books/Penguin Random House)
- Elizabeth McKenzie, The Portable Veblen (Penguin Press/Penguin Random House)
- Lydia Millet, Sweet Lamb of Heaven (W. W. Norton & Company)
- Brad Watson, Miss Jane (W. W. Norton & Company)
- Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad (Doubleday/Penguin Random House)
- Jacqueline Woodson, Another Brooklyn (Amistad/HarperCollinsPublishers)
And just to round us out, here too are the . . .
MAN BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEES
- Graeme Macrae Burnet (U.K.), author of His Bloody Project
- David Szalay (Canada/U.K.), author of All That Man Is
- Madeleine Thien (Canada), author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing
- Ottessa Moshfegh(U.S.), author of Eileen
- Paul Beatty (U.S.), author of The Sellout
- Deborah Levy (U.S.), author of Hot Milk
