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September 12, 2024By Erin Somers

National Book Awards Longlists for Fiction and Nonfiction

September 12, 2024By Erin Somers

The National Book Foundation continued its longlist announcements with the fiction and nonfiction nominees. Shortlists will be named on October 1. The fiction list:

’Pemi Aguda, Ghostroots (Norton)
Kaveh Akbar, Martyr! (Knopf)
Jessica Anthony, The Most (Little, Brown)
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Catalina (One World)
Percival Everett, James (Doubleday)
Miranda July, All Fours (Riverhead)
Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake (Scribner)
Hisham Matar, My Friends (Random House)
Sam Sax, Yr Dead (McSweeney)
Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection (William Morrow)

Nonfiction:

Hanif Abdurraqib, There’s Always This Year (Random House)
Rebecca Boyle, Our Moon (Random House)
Jason De León, Soldiers and Kings (Viking Books)
Eliza Griswold, Circle of Hope (FSG)
Kate Manne, Unshrinking (Crown)
Salman Rushdie, Knife (Random House)
Ernest Scheyder, The War Below (One Signal)
Richard Slotkin, A Great Disorder (Belknap Press)
Deborah Jackson Taffa, Whiskey Tender (Harper)
Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, Magical/Realism (Tiny Reparations Books)

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