The National Book Awards announced its Fiction and Nonfiction longlists, with the finalists to be named on October 3. (Titles included in our Buzz Books samplers are noted with a *) The Fiction nominees:
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Chain-Gang All-Stars (Pantheon)
Aaliyah Bilal, Temple Folk (Simon & Schuster)
Eliot Duncan, Ponyboy (Norton)
Paul Harding, This Other Eden (Norton)
Tania James, Loot (Knopf)
Jayne Anne Phillips, Night Watch (Knopf)
Mona Susan Power, A Council of Dolls (Mariner)
Hanna Pylväinen, The End of Drum-Time (Henry Holt)
Justin Torres, Blackouts (FSG)*
LaToya Watkins, Holler, Child (Tiny Reparations)
The Nonfiction list:
Ned Blackhawk, The Rediscovery of America (Yale University Press)*
Jonathan Eig, King (FSG)*
Viet Thanh Nguyen, A Man of Two Faces (Grove Press)
Prudence Peiffer, The Slip (Harper)
Donovan X. Ramsey, When Crack Was King (One World)
Cristina Rivera Garza, Liliana’s Invincible Summer (Hogarth)
Christina Sharpe, Ordinary Notes (FSG)
Raja Shehadeh, We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I (Other Press)
John Vaillant, Fire Weather (Knopf)
Kidada E. Williams, I Saw Death Coming (Bloomsbury)
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