This is the first year the National Book Award is giving us a longlist of titles for each category. This past week, they’ve been announcing one category per day, culminating in today’s fiction longlist.
Fiction:
- Pacific, by Tom Drury
- The End of the Point, by Elizabeth Graver
- The Flamethrowers, by Rachel Kushner
- The Lowland, by Jhumpa Lahiri
- A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, by Anthony Marra
- The Good Lord Bird, by James McBride
- Someone, by Alice McDermott
- Bleeding Edge, by Thomas Pynchon
- Tenth of December, by George Saunders
- Fools, by Joan Silber
Nonfiction:
- Finding Florida: The True Story of the Sunshine State, by T.D. Allman
- Facing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami, by Gretel Ehrlich
- The Wolf and the Watchman: A Father, a Son, and the CIA, by Scott C. Johnson
- Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin, by Jill Lepore
- Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields, by Wendy Lower
- Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865, by James Oakes
- The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, by George Packer
- The Internal Enemy: Slavery and the War in Virginia, 1772-1832, by Alan Taylor
- Duke: A Life of Duke Elington, by Terry Teachout
- Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, & the Prison of Belief, by Lawrence Wright
Poetry:
- Metaphysical Dog, by Frank Bidart
- Bury My Clothes, by Roger Bonair-Agard
- Stay, Illusion, by Lucie Brock-Broido
- So Recently Rent a World, New and Selected Poems: 1968-2012, by Andrei Codrescu
- Seasonal Works with Letters on a Fire, by Brenda Hillman
- The Big Smoke, by Adrian Matejka
- American Amnesiac, by Diane Raptosh
- Black Aperture, by Matt Rasmussen
- Transfer of Qualities, by Martha Ronk
- Incarnadine: Poems, by Mary Szybist
Young People’s Literature:
- The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp, by Kathi Appelt
- Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures, by Kate DiCamillo
- A Tangle of Knots, by Lisa Graff
- The Summer Prince, by Alaya Dawn Johnson
- The Thing About Luck, by Cynthia Kadohata
- Two Boys Kissing, by David Levithan
- Far, Far Away, by Tom McNeal
- Picture Me Gone, by Meg Rosoff
- The Real Boy, by Anne Ursu
- Boxers & Saints, by Gene Luen Yang
