Here's the 2020 longlist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction

The longlist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction came out today.

While the list of previous awards for nominees is long indeed, only one author — Jill Lepore — has been on a National Book Award list before, with a 2013 finalist nod.

This year's finalists will be announced October 6, and the winners will be revealed November 18.

• Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto, by Michelle Bowdler.

• The Undocumented Americans, by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio.

• If Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future, by Jill Lepore.

• The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X, by Les Payne and Tamara Payne.

• Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory, by Claudio Saunt.

• My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, by Jenn Shapland.

• Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl, by Jonathan C. Slaght.

• How to Make a Slave and Other Essays, by Jerald Walker.

• Afropessimism, by Frank B. Wilderson III.

• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson. 

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