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
