National Book Awards 2016 Longlist Announced

Yesterday the National Book Foundation announced the longlist of nominees for its prizes in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People's Literature. Five finalists for each of these categories will be announced on October 13th, and the final prizes will be awarded at the National Book Award Ceremony on November 16th.

Penguin Random House captured the most nominations followed by W. W. Norton.

Check out the full list of nominees below.

Fiction

• Chris Bachelder, The Throwback Special (W. W. Norton & Company)
• Garth Greenwell, What Belongs to You (Farrar, Straus and Giroux/Macmillan)
• Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone (Little, Brown and Company/Hachette Book Group)
• Paulette Jiles, News of the World (William Morrow/HarperCollinsPublishers)
• Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs (Viking Books/Penguin Random House)
• Elizabeth McKenzie, The Portable Veblen (Penguin Press/Penguin Random House)
• Lydia Millet, Sweet Lamb of Heaven (W. W. Norton & Company)
• Brad Watson, Miss Jane (W. W. Norton & Company)
• Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad (Doubleday/Penguin Random House)
• Jacqueline Woodson, Another Brooklyn (Amistad/HarperCollinsPublishers)

Nonfiction

• Andrew J. Bacevich, America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History
  (Random House/Penguin Random House)
• Patricia Bell-Scott, The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice (Alfred A. Knopf /Penguin Random House)
  
• Adam Cohen, Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck
  (Penguin Press/Penguin Random House)
• Arlie Russell Hochschild, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right
  (The New Press)
  
• Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
  (Nation Books)
  
• Viet Thanh Nguyen, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
  (Harvard University Press)
  
• Cathy O’Neil, Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
  (Crown Publishing Group/Penguin Random House)
  
• Andrés Reséndez, The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
  (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Manisha Sinha, The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition
  (Yale University Press)
• Heather Ann Thompson, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
  (Pantheon Books/Penguin Random House)

Poetry

• Daniel Borzutzky, The Performance of Becoming Human (Brooklyn Arts Press)
• Rita Dove, Collected Poems 1974 – 2004 (W. W. Norton & Company)
• Peter Gizzi, Archeophonics (Wesleyan University Press)
• Donald Hall, The Selected Poems of Donald Hall (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Jay Hopler, The Abridged History of Rainfall (McSweeney’s)
• Donika Kelly, Bestiary (Graywolf Press)
• Jane Mead, World of Made and Unmade (Alice James Books)
• Solmaz Sharif, Look (Graywolf Press)
• Monica Youn, Blackacre (Graywolf Press)
• Kevin Young, Blue Laws (Alfred A. Knopf)

Young People's Literature

• Kwame Alexander, Booked (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Kate DiCamillo, Raymie Nightingale (Candlewick Press)
• John Lewis, Andrew Aydin & Nate Powell (Artist), March: Book Three (Top Shelf)
• Grace Lin, When the Sea Turned to Silver (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
• Anna-Marie McLemore, When the Moon Was Ours (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press)
• Meg Medina, Burn Baby Burn (Candlewick Press)
• Sara Pennypacker & Jon Klassen (Illustrator), Pax (Balzer & Bray/HarperCollins)
• Jason Reynolds, Ghost (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing)
• Caren Stelson, Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor’s Story (Carolrhoda Books/Lerner Publishing Group)
• Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star (Delacorte Press/Penguin Random House)