The longlist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction was announced on Thursday afternoon:
Hanif Abdurraqib, A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance (Random House)
Lucas Bessire, Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains (Princeton University Press)
Grace M. Cho, Tastes Like War: A Memoir (Feminist Press)
Scott Ellsworth, The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice (Dutton)
Nicole Eustace, Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America (Liveright)
Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together (One World)
Louis Menand, The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Tiya Miles, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake (Random House)
Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America (Little, Brown and Company)
Deborah Willis, The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship (New York University Press)
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