Here is the Nonfiction Longlist for the 2018 National Book Awards
On this, the Nicest Year of the Awards
The National Book Foundation has announced the ten books contending for this year’s National Book Award in Nonfiction. The longlisted titles were chosen from a total of 546 books submitted to the foundation by publishers, and will be judged by a panel comprised of Rachel Cass, John Freeman, Annette Gordon-Reed (Chair), Sarah Manguso, and Andrés Reséndez. All of the National Book Award Finalists will be announced on October 10, and the winners will be announced on Wednesday, November 14th at the 2018 National Book Awards Ceremony and Benefit Dinner in New York City.
The full longlist:
Carol Anderson, One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
Bloomsbury Publishing
(Read Anderson’s essay “Respectability Will Not Save Us” here.)
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
(Read an excerpt from Brothers of the Gun here.)
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
(Read an excerpt from The Tangled Tree here.)
Sarah Smarsh, Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
Scribner / Simon & Schuster
(Listen to Sarah Smarsh in conversation with John Freeman here.)
Rebecca Solnit, Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)
Haymarket Books
(Read Rebecca Solnit on many topics here.)
Jeffrey C. Stewart, The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
Oxford University Press
(Read an excerpt from The New Negro here.)
Adam Winkler, We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
Liveright / W. W. Norton & Company
Emily Temple
Emily Temple is the managing editor at Lit Hub. Her first novel, The Lightness, was published by William Morrow/HarperCollins in June 2020. You can buy it here.
