This week the National Book Foundation is releasing longlists for the 2024 National Book Awards. Finalists will be announced October 1, and winners named November 20 at the National Book Awards Ceremony. This year's longlisted titles in the Young People's Literature and and Translated Literature categories are:
Young People's Literature
Ariel Crashes a Train by Olivia A. Cole (Labyrinth Road/PRH)
Buffalo Dreamer by Violet Duncan (Nancy Paulsen Books/PRH)
Wild Dreamers by Margarita Engle (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
The Great Cool Ranch Dorito in the Sky by Josh Galarza (Henry Holt & Co.)
The First State of Being by Erin Entrada Kelly (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins)
Everything We Never Had by Randy Ribay (Kokila/PRH)
Kareem Between by Shifa Saltagi Safadi (G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers)
The Unboxing of a Black Girl by Angela Shanté (Page Street Publishing)
Free Period by Ali Terese (Scholastic Press)
Mid-Air by Alicia D. Williams (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books)
Translated Literature
The Tale of a Wall: Reflections on the Meaning of Hope and Freedom by Nasser Abu Srour, translated from the Arabic by Luke Leafgren (Other Press)
The Book Censor's Library by Bothayna Al-Essa, translated from the Arabic by Ranya Abdelrahma & Sawad Hussain (Restless Books)
Ædnan by Linnea Axelsson, translated from the Swedish by Saskia Vogel (Knopf)
On the Calculation of Volume (Book I) by Solvej Balle, translated from the Danish by Barbara J. Haveland (New Directions)
Woodworm by Layla Martínez, translated from Spanish by Sophie Hughes & Annie McDermott (Two Lines Press)
The Villain's Dance by Fiston Mwanza Mujila, translated from the French by Roland Glasser (Deep Vellum)
Pink Slime by Fernanda Trías, translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary (Scribner)
The Abyss by Fernando Vallejo, translated from the Spanish by Yvette Siegert (New Directions)
Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated from the Mandarin Chinese by Lin King (Graywolf Press)
Where the Wind Calls Home by Samar Yazbek, translated from the Arabic by Leri Price (World Editions)