The National Book Foundation is unveiling longlists this week for the National Book Award, starting with the young people's literature category on Tuesday, poetry on Wednesday and nonfiction yesterday. This year's longlisted nonfiction titles are:
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar (Atria/37 INK/S&S)
The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America by Frances FitzGerald (S&S)
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman, Jr. (FSG)
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen (Riverhead Books)
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann (Doubleday)
No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need by Naomi Klein (Haymarket Books)
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America by Nancy MacLean (Viking)
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein (Liveright /Norton)
The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson (S&S)
Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts and Fake News by Kevin Young (Graywolf Press)