The National Book Critics Circle Award has released longlists for its annual awards in the categories of autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, as well as for the Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize. Below is the nonfiction longlist.
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq by Steve Coll
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham [ebook]
A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery by Lawrence Ingrassia
The Freaks Came Out To Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture by Tricia Romano
Kent State: An American Tragedy by Brian VanDeMark
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth by Zoë Schlanger
Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood by Gretchen Sissons
Slaveroad by John Edgar Wideman
There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib
We’re Alone by Edwidge Danticat
You can see what books were nominated in other categories here.