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Here Are The Longlist Nominees For This Year's National Book Awards

By Petra Mayer
Published September 15, 2021 at 10:15 AM EDT
Piotr Wytr膮偶ek

Updated September 17, 2021 at 10:15 AM ET

The longlists for the National Book Awards are here 鈥� 40 titles, representing a broad range of new voices, previous nominees, debuts and book-world veterans.

You can click on the links below to jump to the individual lists, and we've included links to some great reviews and interviews with the nominated authors.

Finalists will be announced October 5th, and we're set to find out the winners November 17th at a New York City venue 鈥� a return to form after last year's pandemic-induced virtual broadcast. But there will be virtual elements, and for those who can't make it to New York, the event will still be streaming live.

Fiction
Nonfiction
Poetry
Translated Literature
Young People's Literature

Fiction

  • , Cloud Cuckoo Land

  • Lauren Groff,

  • Jakob Guanzon,

  • Laird Hunt, Zorrie

  • Honor茅e Fanonne Jeffers,

  • Robert Jones, Jr.,

  • Katie Kitamura,

  • Elizabeth McCracken,

  • , Hell of a Book

  • , Bewilderment

    • Nonfiction

  • Hanif Abdurraqib,

  • Lucas Bessire, Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains

  • Grace M. Cho, Tastes Like War: A Memoir

  • Scott Ellsworth,

  • Nicole Eustace, Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America

  • Heather McGhee,

  • , The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War

  • Tiya Miles,

  • Clint Smith,

  • Deborah Willis, The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship

    • Poetry

  • , The Wild Fox of Yemen

  • Baba Badji, Ghost Letters

  • Desiree C. Bailey, What Noise Against the Cane

  • , Master Suffering

  • Andr茅s Cerpa, The Vault

  • Mart铆n Espada, Floaters

  • Forrest Gander, Twice Alive

  • , Sho

  • Hoa Nguyen, A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure

  • Jackie Wang,

    • Translated Literature

  • Maryse Cond茅, , translated from the French by Richard Philcox

  • Elisa Shua Dusapin, Winter in Sokcho, translated from the French by Aneesa Abbas Higgins

  • Ge Fei, Peach Blossom Paradise, translated from the Chinese by Canaan Morse

  • Nona Fern谩ndez, The Twilight Zone, translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer

  • Bo-Young Kim, On the Origin of Species and Other Stories, translated from the Korean by Joungmin Lee Comfort and Sora Kim-Russell

  • Benjam铆n Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World, translated from the Spanish by Adrian Nathan West

  • Elvira Navarro, Rabbit Island: Stories, translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney

  • Judith Schalansky, An Inventory of Losses, translated from the German by Jackie Smith

  • Maria Stepanova, In Memory of Memory, translated from the Russian by Sasha Dugale

  • Samar Yazbek, Planet of Clay, translated from the Arabic by Leri Price

    • Young People's Literature

  • Safia Elhillo,

  • Shing Yin Khor,

  • , A Snake Falls to Earth

  • , Last Night at the Telegraph Club

  • Kyle Lukoff, Too Bright to See

  • Kekla Magoon, Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People

  • Amber McBride,

  • Anna-Marie McLemore, The Mirror Season

  • Carole Boston Weatherford; illustrations by Floyd Cooper,

  • Paula Yoo,

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