2024 National Book Award for Nonfiction Longlist

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13 participants (10 books)

Overview

This is the 2024 Nonfiction Longlist.

2024 Fiction Longlist

Challenge Books

There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

Hanif Abdurraqib

Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are by Rebecca Boyle

Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are

Rebecca Boyle

Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling by Jason De León

Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling

Jason De León

Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church by Eliza Griswold

Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church

Eliza Griswold

Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia by Kate Manne

Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia

Kate Manne

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

Salman Rushdie

The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives by Ernest Scheyder

The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives

Ernest Scheyder

A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America by Richard Slotkin

A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America

Richard Slotkin

Whiskey Tender by Deborah Jackson Taffa

Whiskey Tender

Deborah Jackson Taffa

Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal

Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders

Vanessa Angélica Villarreal