Here's the 2022 longlist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction

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

Out of over six hundred submissions, these ten remain under consideration.

Finalists will be announced October 4, and the winners will be revealed November 16.

• Bright Unbearable Reality: Essays, by Anna Badkhen

• Ted Kennedy: A Life, by John A. Farrell

• Uncommon Measure: A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time, by Natalie Hodges

• Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands, by Kelly Lytle Hernández

• The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness, by Meghan O’Rourke

• South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation, by Imani Perry

• Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus, by David Quammen

• The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir, by Ingrid Rojas Contreras

• His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice, by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa

• Lost & Found: A Memoir, by Kathryn Schulz 

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