A review of Nominated Nonfiction
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This week the National Book Foundation is releasing longlists for the 2024 National Book Awards.Finalists will be announced October 1, and winners named November 20 at the 75th National Book Awards Ceremony. The categories are: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People's Literature. Below are the nonfiction titles.
2024 Longlist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction:
- Hanif Abdurraqib, There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
- Rebecca Boyle, Our Moon: How Earth’s Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
- Jason De León, Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling
- Eliza Griswold, Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church
- Kate Manne, Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia
- Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
- Ernest Scheyder, The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives
- Richard Slotkin, A Great Disorder: National Myth and the Battle for America
- Deborah Jackson Taffa, Whiskey Tender: A Memoir
- Vanessa Angélica Villarreal, Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders