2018 National Book Awards Longlist for Poetry, Nonfiction, and Fiction

The National Book Foundation has released more longlists for their 2018 National Book Awards! I’ve already shared their lists for translated literature and young people’s literature. Here are their newest lists:

Poetry

National Book Foundation's Longlist for Poetry

Wobble by Rae Armantrout

feeld by Jos Charles

Be With by Forrest Gander

American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes

Museum of the Americas by J. Michael Martinez

Ghost of by Diana Khoi Nguyen 

Indecency by Justin Phillip Reed

lo terciario/the tertiary by Raquel Salas Rivera

Monument: Poems New and Selected by Natasha Trethewey

Eye Level by Jenny Xie

Nonfiction

National Book Awards Longlist for Nonfiction

One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy by Carol Anderson

The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, The First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation by Colin G. Calloway

Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Steve Coll

Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War by Marwan Hisham and Molly Crabapple

American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic by Victoria Johnson

The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life by David Quammen

Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh

Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays) by Rebecca Solnit

The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C. Stewart

We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights by Adam Winkler

Fiction

National Book Awards Longlist for Fiction

A Lucky Man by Jamel Brinkley

Gun Love by Jennifer Clement

Florida by Lauren Groff

The Boatbuilder by Daniel Gumbiner

Where the Dead Sit Talking by Brandon Hobson

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

The Friend by Sigrid Nunez

There There by Tommy Orange

Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires

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