The longlist for the 2019 National Book Award for Young People's Literature consists of:
The Undefeated by Kwame Alexander, illustrated by Kadir Nelson (Versify/HMH)
SHOUT by Laurie Halse Anderson (Viking Books for Young Readers)
Pet by Akwaeke Emezi (Make Me a World/PRH)
A Place to Belong by Cynthia Kadohata, illustrated by Julia Kuo (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books/S&S)
Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks by Jason Reynolds (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books/S&S)
Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay (Kokila/PRH)
Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All by Laura Ruby (Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins)
1919: The Year That Changed America by Martin W. Sandler (Bloomsbury Children's Books)
Out of Salem by Hal Schrieve (Triangle Square/Seven Stories Press)
Kiss Number 8 by Colleen AF Venable and Ellen T. Crenshaw (First Second Books/Macmillan)
Finalists will be unveiled on October 8, and the winners announced at the National Book Awards Ceremony and Benefit Dinner on November 20 in New York City.
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The shortlist for the 2019 Financial Times and McKinsey & Company Business Book of the Year Award, recognizing "a work which provides the most compelling and enjoyable insight into modern business issues," is:
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez (Abrams)
Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein (Riverhead Books)
Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America by Christopher Leonard (Simon & Schuster)
The Third Pillar: The Revival of Community in a Polarised World by Raghuram Rajan (Penguin Press)
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff (PublicAffairs)
The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution by Gregory Zuckerman (Portfolio Penguin)
The winner will be announced December 3.