This week the National Book Foundation is releasing longlists for the 2025 National Book Awards. Finalists will be announced October 7, and winners named November 19 at the National Book Awards Ceremony. This year's longlisted titles in the Young People's Literature and Translated Literature categories are:
Young people's literature
A Sea of Lemon Trees: The Corrido of Roberto Alvarez by María Dolores Águila (Roaring Brook Press)
The Corruption of Hollis Brown by K. Ancrum (HarperCollins)
The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze by Derrick Barnes (Viking Books for Young Readers)
A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe by Mahogany L. Browne (Crown Books for Young Readers)
A World Worth Saving by Kyle Lukoff (Dial Books for Young Readers)
The Leaving Room by Amber McBride (Feiwel & Friends)
The Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story by Daniel Nayeri (Levine Querido)
Truth Is by Hannah V. Sawyerr (Amulet Books)
Song of a Blackbird by Maria van Lieshout (First Second)
(S)Kin by Ibi Zoboi (Versify)
Translated literature
On the Calculation of Volume (Book III) by Solvej Balle, translated from the Danish by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell (New Directions)
The Queen of Swords by Jazmina Barrera, translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney (Two Lines Press)
We Are Green and Trembling by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, translated from the Spanish by Robin Myers (New Directions)
The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje, translated from the Dutch by David McKay (New Vessel Press)
We Do Not Part by Han Kang, translated from the Korean by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris (Hogarth)
Sleep Phase by Mohamed Kheir, translated from the Arabic by Robin Moger (Two Lines Press)
Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa, translated from the Japanese by Polly Barton (Hogarth)
We Computers: A Ghazal Novel by Hamid Ismailov, translated from the Uzbek by Shelley Fairweather-Vega (Yale University Press)
Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico, translated from the Italian by Sophie Hughes (New York Review Books)
Sad Tiger by Neige Sinno, translated from the French by Natasha Lehrer (Seven Stories Press)
