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September 16, 2026By Erin Somers

National Book Awards Longlist: Nonfiction and Fiction

September 16, 2026By Erin Somers

The National Book Awards continued their longlist announcements with fiction and nonfiction. Finalists will be announced on October 6 and the winner will be announced at the awards gala on November 18.

Fiction

Hannah Lillith Assadi, Paradiso 17 (Knopf)

Kimberly Blaeser, Red Ants (Counterpoint Press)

Edwidge Danticat, Dèy (Knopf)

Julián Delgado Lopera, Pretend You’re Dead and I Carry You (Liveright)

Louise Erdrich, Python’s Kiss (Harper)

Marlon James, The Disappearers (Riverhead Books)

Valeria Luiselli, Beginning Middle End (Knopf)

Alexander Maksik, Passengers (Europa Editions)

Kenan Orhan, The Renovation (FSG)

Morgan Thomas, Mad Eden (MCD)

Nonfiction

Rozina Ali, Seasons of Fury (Crown)

Colin Asher, The Midnight Special (Norton)

Zayd Ayers Dohrn, Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young (Norton)

Abdelrahman ElGendy, Huna (Hogarth)

Camonghne Felix, Let the Poets Govern (One World)

Wil Haygood, The War Within a War (Knopf )

Sara Nović, Mother Tongue (Random House)

Joseph Osmundson, Spawning Season (Bloomsbury Publishing)

Angela Pelster, The Evolution of Fire (Milkweed Editions)

Wendy S. Walters, A Dead White (Scribner)

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