Longlists for the 2017 National Book Award announced
18 September 2017 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing
In the US, the longlists for the 2017 National Book Awards have been announced, reports Publishers Weekly.
The three longlists for the adult awards are:
Fiction
- Dark at the Crossing (Elliot Ackerman, Daunt Books)
- The King is Always Above the People: Stories (Daniel Alarcón, Fourth Estate)
- Miss Burma (Charmaine Craig, Grove US)
- Manhattan Beach (Jennifer Egan, Hachette)
- The Leavers (Lisa Ko, Algonquin US)
- Pachinko (Min Jin Lee, Head of Zeus)
- Her Body and Other Parties: Stories (Carmen Maria Machado, Serpent’s Tail)
- A Kind of Freedom (Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, Hachette)
- Sing, Unburied, Sing (Jesmyn Ward, Bloomsbury)
- Barren Island (Carol Zoref, New Issues Poetry & Prose)
Nonfiction
- Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge (Erica Armstrong Dunbar, S&S US)
- The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America (Frances FitzGerald, S&S US)
- Locking up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America (James Forman, Jr, Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (Masha Gessen, Granta)
- Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (David Grann, S&S)
- No is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need (Naomi Klein, Allen Lane)
- Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America (Nancy MacLean, Scribe)
- The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Richard Rothstein, Liveright)
- The Blood of Emmett Till (Timothy B Tyson, S&S)
- Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News (Kevin Young, Graywolf)
Poetry
- Frank Bidart, Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016 (Frank Bidart, Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (Chen Chen, BOA Editions)
- The Book of Endings (Leslie Harrison, University of Akron Press)
- Magdalene: Poems (Marie Howe, W W Norton & Company)
- Where Now: New and Selected Poems (Laura Kasischke, Copper Canyon)
- WHEREAS (Layli Long Soldier, Graywolf)
- In the Language of My Captor (Shane McCrae, Wesleyan University Press)
- Square Inch Hours (Sherod Santos, W W Norton & Company)
- Don’t Call Us Dead: Poems (Danez Smith, Chatto & Windus)
- Afterland (Mai Der Vang, Graywolf)
To see the 2017 National Book Award longlist for Young People’s Literature, click here.
The five finalists in each category will be named on 4 October, and the winners will be announced at a ceremony in New York City on 15 November.
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