The lists are as hot and delicious as pieces of bread just released from the bakery. The following are the 2018 National Book Awards longlists for fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and young people’s literature. Enjoy them! 

 

 

Fiction

 

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• Jamel Brinkley, A Lucky Man
  (Graywolf Press)

• Jennifer Clement, Gun Love
  (Hogarth / Penguin Random House)

• Lauren Groff, Florida
  (Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House)

• Daniel Gumbiner, The Boatbuilder
  (McSweeney’s)

• Brandon Hobson, Where the Dead Sit Talking
  (Soho Press)

• Tayari Jones, An American Marriage
  (Algonquin Books / Workman Publishing)

• Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers
  (Viking Books / Penguin Random House)

• Sigrid Nunez, The Friend
  (Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House)

• Tommy Orange, There There
  (Alfred A. Knopf / Penguin Random House)

• Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Heads of the Colored People
  (Atria Books / 37 INK / Simon & Schuster)

 

 

Nonfiction

 

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• Carol Anderson, One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy 
  (Bloomsbury Publishing)

• Colin G. Calloway, The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation
  (Oxford University Press)

• Steve Coll, Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan 
  (Penguin Press / Penguin Random House)

• Marwan Hisham and Molly Crabapple, Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War 
  (One World / Penguin Random House)

• Victoria Johnson, American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic
  (Liveright / W. W. Norton & Company)

• David Quammen, The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
  (Simon & Schuster)

• Sarah Smarsh, Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
  (Scribner / Simon & Schuster)

• Rebecca Solnit, Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)
  (Haymarket Books)

• Jeffrey C. Stewart, The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
  (Oxford University Press)

• Adam Winkler, We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
  (Liveright / W. W. Norton & Company)

 

 

Poetry

 

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• Rae Armantrout, Wobble 
  (Wesleyan University Press)

• Jos Charles, feeld
  (Milkweed Editions)

• Forrest Gander, Be With 
  (New Directions)

• Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin 
  (Penguin Books / Penguin Random House)

• J. Michael Martinez, Museum of the Americas
  (Penguin Books / Penguin Random House)

• Diana Khoi Nguyen, Ghost Of
  (Omnidawn Publishing)

• Justin Phillip Reed, Indecency
  (Coffee House Press)

• Raquel Salas Rivera, lo terciario / the tertiary
  (Timeless, Infinite Light)

• Natasha Trethewey, Monument: Poems New and Selected
  (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

• Jenny Xie, Eye Level
  (Graywolf Press)

 

 

Translated Literature

 

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• Négar Djavadi, Disoriental
  Translated by Tina Kover
  (Europa Editions)

• Roque Larraquy, Comemadre
  Translated by Heather Cleary
  (Coffee House Press)

• Dunya Mikhail, The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq 
  Translated by Max Weiss and Dunya Mikhail
  (New Directions Publishing)

• Perumal Murugan, One Part Woman 
  Translated by Aniruddhan Vasudevan
  (Black Cat / Grove Atlantic)

• Hanne Ørstavik, Love
  Translated by Martin Aitken
  (Archipelago Books)

• Gunnhild Øyehaug, Wait, Blink: A Perfect Picture of Inner Life
  Translated by Kari Dickson
  (Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers)

• Domenico Starnone, Trick
  Translated by Jhumpa Lahiri
  (Europa Editions)

• Yoko Tawada, The Emissary
  Translated by Margaret Mitsutani
  (New Directions Publishing)

• Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
  Translated by Jennifer Croft
  (Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House)

• Tatyana Tolstaya, Aetherial Worlds
  Translated by Anya Migdal
  (Alfred A. Knopf / Penguin Random House)

 

Young People’s Literature

 

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• Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X 
  (HarperTeen / HarperCollins Publishers)

• M. T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin, The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge
  (Candlewick Press)

• Bryan Bliss, We’ll Fly Away 
  (Greenwillow Books / HarperCollins Publishers)

• Leslie Connor, The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 
  (Katherine Tegen Books / HarperCollins Publishers)

• Christopher Paul Curtis, The Journey of Little Charlie
  (Scholastic Press / Scholastic, Inc.)

• Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Hey, Kiddo
  (Graphix / Scholastic, Inc.)

• Tahereh Mafi, A Very Large Expanse of Sea
  (HarperTeen / HarperCollins Publishers)

• Joy McCullough, Blood Water Paint
  (Dutton Children’s Books / Penguin Random House)

• Elizabeth Partridge, Boots on the Ground: America’s War in Vietnam
  (Viking Children’s Books / Penguin Random House)

• Vesper Stamper, What the Night Sings
  (Knopf Books for Young Readers / Penguin Random House)

 

 

Did you find out your favorite authors? Let’s bet on who’s going to win from each category this year! The ceremony will be held at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City on November 14th, and will also be live-streamed online in its entirety.

 

 

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