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2023 National Book Awards Longlist for Nonfiction

Nominated Nonfiction

The 2023 National Book Awards Longlist for Nonfiction have been announced. The finalists will be announced October 3rd and the winner on November 15th.

Ned Blackhawk
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
Yale University Press
ebook 

Jonathan Eig
King: A Life
Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers
ebook 
 
Viet Thanh Nguyen
A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial
Grove Press / Grove Atlantic

Donovan X. Ramsey
When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
One World / Penguin Random House
ebook

Cristina Rivera Garza
Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice
Hogarth / Penguin Random House

Prudence Peiffer
The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever
Harper / HarperCollins Publishers

Christina Sharpe
Ordinary Notes
Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers

Raja Shehadeh
We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir
Other Press

John Vaillant
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
Knopf / Penguin Random House

Kidada E. Williams
I Saw Death Coming: A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction
Bloomsbury Publishing

Sep 18, 2023