Here’s the longlist for the 2025 National Book Award for Nonfiction.
Today, the National Book Foundation announced the longlist for the 2025 National Book Award for Nonfiction. Then ten titles were selected from a pool of 652 books submitted for consideration by their publishers. This year’s judges for Nonfiction are Heather Kathleen Moody Hall, Tiya Miles (Chair), Raj Patel, Cristina Rivera Garza, and Eli Saslow.
The finalists in all categories will be announced on Tuesday, October 7, and the winners revealed at the 76th National Book Awards Ceremony on November 19.
In the meantime, here’s the longlist:
Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Knopf / Penguin Random House
Caleb Gayle, Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State
Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House
Julia Ioffe, Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
Ecco / HarperCollins Publishers
Fatemeh Jamalpour and Nilo Tabrizy, For the Sun After Long Nights: The Story of Iran’s Women-Led Uprising
Pantheon Books / Penguin Random House
Yiyun Li, Things in Nature Merely Grow
Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers
Lana Lin, The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam
Dorothy, a publishing project
Ben Ratliff, Run the Song: Writing About Running About Listening
Graywolf Press
Claudia Rowe, Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care
Abrams Press / Abrams
Jordan Thomas, When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World
Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House
Helen Whybrow, The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd’s Life
Milkweed Editions
