Longlists Announced for the National Book Award

Earlier this week, longlist titles were announced for the National Book Award. The shortlist will be announced October 15 and the winners will be announced on November 18. Fiction and nonfiction titles are listed below, For more information including the Young People's longlist and the Poetry longlist, see http://www.nationalbook.org/.

Fiction

A Cure for Suicide by Jesse Ball

Refund: Stories by Karen E. Bender

Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg

The Turner House by Angela Flournoy

Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff

Fortune Smiles: Stories by Adam Johnson

Welcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo Johnson

Honeydew by Edith Pearlman

A Little Life  by Hanya Yanagihara

Mislaid by Nell Zink

Nonfiction

Rain: A Natural and Cultural History by Cynthia Barnett

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Mourning Lincoln by Martha Hodes

Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs by Sally Mann

The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery

Paradise of the Pacific: Approaching Hawaii by Susanna Moore

Love and Other Ways of Dying: Essays by Michael Paterniti

If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran by Carla Power

Ordinary Light: A Memoir by Tracy K. Smith

Travels in Vermeer: A Memoir by Michael White