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 75th National Book Awards Ceremony. This year's longlisted titles in the Poetry and Nonfiction categories are:
Poetry
Wrong Norma by Anne Carson (New Directions)
[…] by Fady Joudah (Milkweed Editions)
Life on Earth by Dorianne Laux (Norton)
Spectral Evidence by Gregory Pardlo (Knopf)
Silver by Rowan Ricardo Phillips (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
The Book of Wounded Sparrows by Octavio Quintanilla (Texas Review Press)
Mother by m.s. RedCherries (Penguin)
Modern Poetry by Diane Seuss (Graywolf Press)
Something About Living by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha (University of Akron Press)
Liontaming in America by Elizabeth Willis (New Directions)
Nonfiction
There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib (Random House)
Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are by Rebecca Boyle (Random House)
Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling by Jason De León (Viking Books)
Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church by Eliza Griswold (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia by Kate Manne (Crown)
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie (Random House)
The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives by Ernest Scheyder (Atria/One Signal Publishers)
A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America by Richard Slotkin (Belknap Press/Harvard University Press)
Whiskey Tender by Deborah Jackson Taffa (Harper)
Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal (Tiny Reparations Books/PRH)