Posted on September 12, 2024 at 3:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
The longlist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction came out today.
Out of almost seven hundred submissions, these ten remain under consideration.
Finalists for all categories — the other four being poetry, young people's literature, translated literature, and fiction — will be announced October 1, and the winners will be revealed November 20.
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There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib
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Our Moon: How Earth’s Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are by Rebecca Boyle
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Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling by Jason De León
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Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church by Eliza Griswold
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Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia by Kate Manne
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Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
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The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives by Ernest Scheyder
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A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America by Richard Slotkin
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Whiskey Tender by Deborah Jackson Taffa
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Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal
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