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
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes
Museum of the Americas by J. Michael Martinez
Indecency by Justin Phillip Reed
lo terciario/the tertiary by Raquel Salas Rivera
Monument: Poems New and Selected by Natasha Trethewey
Nonfiction
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy by Carol Anderson
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
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
The Boatbuilder by Daniel Gumbiner
Where the Dead Sit Talking by Brandon Hobson
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
Read Yourself Happy 