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    Here’s the longlist for the 2024 National Book Award for Nonfiction.

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    September 12, 2024, 3:00pm

    Today, the National Book Foundation announced the longlist for the 2024 National Book Award for Nonfiction. The ten titles were selected from a pool of 671 books submitted for consideration by their publishers. This year’s judges for Nonfiction are Brenda J. Child, Anand Giridharadas, Tressie McMillan Cottom (Chair), Timothy Morton, and Arvin Ramgoolam.

    The finalists will be announced on Tuesday, October 1, and the winners in all categories will be revealed at the National Book Awards Ceremony on November 20, 2024.

    Here’s the 2024 Nonfiction longlist:

    Hanif Abdurraqib, There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
    Random House / Penguin Random House

    Rebecca Boyle, Our Moon: How Earth’s Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
    Random House / Penguin Random House

    Jason De León, Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling
    Viking Books / Penguin Random House

    Eliza Griswold, Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church
    Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers

    Kate Manne, Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia
    Crown / Penguin Random House

    Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
    Random House / Penguin Random House

    Ernest Scheyder, The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives
    Atria/One Signal Publishers / Simon & Schuster

    Richard Slotkin, A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America
    Belknap Press / Harvard University Press

    Deborah Jackson Taffa, Whiskey Tender
    Harper / HarperCollins Publishers

    Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders
    Tiny Reparations Books / Penguin Random House

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