2014 National Book Award Longlists Announced

Over the course of four days this week, the National Book Foundation announced the longlists of titles for this year’s National Book Awards. Ten titles are on each of the longlists for fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young people’s literature.

At 8:40 a.m. ET on October 15, Books & Books’ Mitch Kaplan will appear on NPR’s Morning Edition to announce the five finalists in each category.

The winners will be announced on November 19 at the National Book Awards Ceremony and Benefit Dinner in New York City.

Fiction

• Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman (Grove Press/Grove/Atlantic)
• Molly Antopol, The UnAmericans (W.W. Norton & Company)
• John Darnielle, Wolf in White Van (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See (Scribner/Simon & Schuster)
• Phil Klay, Redeployment (The Penguin Press/Penguin Group USA)
• Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven (Alfred A. Knopf/Random House)
• Elizabeth McCracken, Thunderstruck & Other Stories (The Dial Press/Random House)
• Richard Powers, Orfeo (W.W. Norton & Company)
• Marilynne Robinson, Lila (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Jane Smiley, Some Luck (Alfred A. Knopf/Random House)

Nonfiction

• Roz Chast, Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? (Bloomsbury)
• John Demos, The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic (Alfred A. Knopf/Random House)
• Anand Gopal, No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War Through Afghan Eyes (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company)
• Nigel Hamilton, The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941 – 1942 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Walter Isaacson, The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (Simon & Schuster)
• John Lahr, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh (W.W. Norton & Company)
• Evan Osnos, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Ronald C. Rosbottom, When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940 - 1944 (Little, Brown and Company/Hachette Book Group)
• Matthew Stewart, Nature’s God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic (W.W. Norton & Company)
• Edward O. Wilson, The Meaning of Human Existence (Liveright Publishing Corporation/W.W. Norton & Company)

Poetry

• Linda Bierds, Roget’s Illusion (G.P. Putnam’s Sons/Penguin Group USA)
• Brian Blanchfield, A Several World (Nightboat Books)
• Louise Glück, Faithful and Virtuous Night (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Edward Hirsch, Gabriel: A Poem (Alfred A. Knopf/Random House)
• Fanny Howe, Second Childhood (Graywolf Press)
• Maureen N. McLane, This Blue (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Fred Moten, The Feel Trio (Letter Machine Editions)
• Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf Press)
• Spencer Reece, The Road to Emmaus (Farrar, Straus and Giroux )
• Mark Strand, Collected Poems (Alfred A. Knopf/Random House)

Young People’s Literature

• Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory (Viking/Penguin Group USA)
• Gail Giles, Girls Like Us (Candlewick Press)
• Carl Hiaasen, Skink – No Surrender (Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers/Random House)
• Kate Milford, Greenglass House (Clarion Books/Houghton Court Mifflin)
• Eliot Schrefer, Threatened (Scholastic Press)
• Steve Sheinkin, The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights (Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan Publishers)
• Andrew Smith, 100 Sideways Miles (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster)
• John Corey Whaley, Noggin (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster)
• Deborah Wiles, Revolution: The Sixties Trilogy, Book Two (Scholastic Press)
• Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming (Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin Group (USA)