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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