The National Book Foundation has been releasing longlists this week for the 2021 National Book Awards, including Young People's Literature and Translated Literature on Wednesday. Yesterday the NBA unveiled the 10 Poetry and Nonfiction category contenders, with Fiction finalists to be released today. Finalists in all categories will be revealed October 5 and winners named live at the NBA Ceremony November 17. The latest longlisted titles:
Poetry
The Wild Fox of Yemen by Threa Almontaser (Graywolf Press)
Ghost Letters by Baba Badji (Parlor Press)
What Noise Against the Cane by Desiree C. Bailey (Yale University Press)
Master Suffering by C.M. Burroughs (Tupelo Press)
The Vault by Andrés Cerpa (Alice James Books)
Floaters by Martín Espada (Norton)
Twice Alive by Forrest Gander (New Directions)
Sho by Douglas Kearney (Wave Books)
A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure by Hoa Nguyen (Wave Books)
The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void by Jackie Wang (Nightboat Books)
Nonfiction
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib (Random House)
Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains by Lucas Bessire (Princeton University Press)
Tastes Like War: A Memoir by Grace M. Cho (Feminist Press at the City University of New York)
The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice by Scott Ellsworth (Dutton)
Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America by Nicole Eustace (Liveright/Norton)
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee (One World/PRH)
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War by Louis Menand (FSG)
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles (Random House)
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith (Little, Brown)
The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship by Deborah Willis (New York University Press)