Today the National Book Foundation has announced the Poetry and the Nonfiction Longlists (the longlist for Fiction will be announced tomorrow).
Poetry
- Wobble
by Rae Armantrout
Purchase from Amazon - feeld
by Jos Charles
Purchase on Amazon - Be With
by Forrest Gander
Purchase on Amazon - American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
by Terrance Hayes
Purchase on Amazon - Museum of the Americas
by J. Michael Martinez
Purchase on Amazon - Ghost Of
by Diana Khoi Nguyen
Purchase on Amazon - Indecency
by Justin Phillip Reed
Purchase on Amazon - lo terciario / the tertiary
by Raquel Salas Rivera
Purchase on Amazon - Monument: Poems New and Selected
by Natasha Trethewey
Purchase on Amazon - Eye Level
by Jenny Xie
Purchase on Amazon
Nonfiction
- One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
by Carol Anderson
Purchase on Amazon - The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation
by Colin G. Calloway
Purchase on Amazon - Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
by Steve Coll
Purchase on Amazon - Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War
by Marwan Hisham and Molly Crabapple
Purchase on Amazon - American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic
by Victoria Johnson
Purchase on Amazon - The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
by David Quammen
Purchase on Amazon - Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
by Sarah Smarsh
Purchase on Amazon - Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)
by Rebecca Solnit
Purchase on Amazon - The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
by Jeffrey C. Stewart
Purchase on Amazon - We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
by Adam Winkler
Purchase on Amazon
I really like these two categories come NBA time. I like nonfiction and poetry, but I don’t have my ear to the ground, so this is usually the first time I hear about the books on the list. Some of my favorite poetry discoveries have come directly because of the NBA.