“THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST FOR #FICTION”

• Jamel Brinkley, A Lucky Man
  (Graywolf Press)
• Jennifer Clement, Gun Love
  (Hogarth / Penguin Random House)
• Lauren Groff, Florida
  (Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House)
• Daniel Gumbiner, The Boatbuilder
  (McSweeney’s)
• Brandon Hobson, Where the Dead Sit Talking
  (Soho Press)
• Tayari Jones, An American Marriage
  (Algonquin Books / Workman Publishing)
• Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers
  (Viking Books / Penguin Random House)
• Sigrid Nunez, The Friend
  (Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House)
• Tommy Orange, There There
  (Alfred A. Knopf / Penguin Random House)
• Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Heads of the Colored People
  (Atria Books / 37 INK / Simon & Schuster)

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Read about the other #longlists released for the 2018 National Book Awards:

Young People’s Literature Longlist

• Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X
  (HarperTeen / HarperCollins Publishers)
• M. T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin, The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge
  (Candlewick Press)
• Bryan Bliss, We’ll Fly Away
  (Greenwillow Books / HarperCollins Publishers)
• Leslie Connor, The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle
  (Katherine Tegen Books / HarperCollins Publishers)
• Christopher Paul Curtis, The Journey of Little Charlie
  (Scholastic Press / Scholastic, Inc.)
• Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Hey, Kiddo
  (Graphix / Scholastic, Inc.)
• Tahereh Mafi, A Very Large Expanse of Sea
  (HarperTeen / HarperCollins Publishers)
• Joy McCullough, Blood Water Paint
  (Dutton Children’s Books / Penguin Random House)
• Elizabeth Partridge, Boots on the Ground: America’s War in Vietnam
  (Viking Children’s Books / Penguin Random House)
• Vesper Stamper, What the Night Sings
  (Knopf Books for Young Readers / Penguin Random House)

Translated Literature Longlist

• Négar Djavadi, Disoriental
  Translated by Tina Kover
  (Europa Editions)
• Roque Larraquy, Comemadre
  Translated by Heather Cleary
  (Coffee House Press)
• Dunya Mikhail, The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq
  Translated by Max Weiss and Dunya Mikhail
  (New Directions Publishing)
• Perumal Murugan, One Part Woman
  Translated by Aniruddhan Vasudevan
  (Black Cat / Grove Atlantic)
• Hanne Ørstavik, Love
  Translated by Martin Aitken
  (Archipelago Books)
• Gunnhild Øyehaug, Wait, Blink: A Perfect Picture of Inner Life
  Translated by Kari Dickson
  (Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers)
• Domenico Starnone, Trick
  Translated by Jhumpa Lahiri
  (Europa Editions)
• Yoko Tawada, The Emissary
  Translated by Margaret Mitsutani
  (New Directions Publishing)
• Olga Tokarczuk, Flights
  Translated by Jennifer Croft
  (Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House)
• Tatyana Tolstaya, Aetherial Worlds
  Translated by Anya Migdal
  (Alfred A. Knopf / Penguin Random House)

Nonfiction Longlist

• Carol Anderson, One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
  (Bloomsbury Publishing)
• Colin G. Calloway, The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation
  (Oxford University Press)
• Steve Coll, Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
  (Penguin Press / Penguin Random House)
• Marwan Hisham and Molly Crabapple, Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War
  (One World / Penguin Random House)
• Victoria Johnson, American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic
  (Liveright / W. W. Norton & Company)
• David Quammen, The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
  (Simon & Schuster)
• Sarah Smarsh, Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
  (Scribner / Simon & Schuster)
• Rebecca Solnit, Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)
  (Haymarket Books)
• Jeffrey C. Stewart, The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
  (Oxford University Press)
• Adam Winkler, We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
  (Liveright / W. W. Norton & Company)

and

Poetry Longlist

• Rae Armantrout, Wobble
  (Wesleyan University Press)
• Jos Charles, feeld
  (Milkweed Editions)
• Forrest Gander, Be With
  (New Directions)
• Terrance Hayes, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
  (Penguin Books / Penguin Random House)
• J. Michael Martinez, Museum of the Americas
  (Penguin Books / Penguin Random House)
• Diana Khoi Nguyen, Ghost Of
  (Omnidawn Publishing)
• Justin Phillip Reed, Indecency
  (Coffee House Press)
• Raquel Salas Rivera, lo terciario / the tertiary
  (Timeless, Infinite Light)
• Natasha Trethewey, Monument: Poems New and Selected
  (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Jenny Xie, Eye Level
  (Graywolf Press)

October 10: Finalists Announced

November 14: National Book Awards Ceremony and Benefit Dinner (Winners announced)

The Sixty-Ninth National Book Awards Ceremony and Benefit Dinner will be held at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City on Wednesday, November 14, and will also be live-streamed online in its entirety.

FMI, book covers, other years’ awards lists, to get tickets and more:  http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2018.html#.W6FbVs5Kipo