National Book Awards Longlists, Man Booker Shortlist Announced

National Book Awards Longlists Revealed

The National Book Foundation is announcing the longlists for the 2016 National Book Awards this week. Finalists will be revealed on October 13 and winners will be announced at the invitation-only National Book Awards Ceremony and Benefit Dinner on November 16 in New York City.

To be eligible for a 2016 National Book Award, a book must have been written by a U.S. citizen and published in the United States between December 1, 2015, and November 30, 2016.

The 2016 National Book Awards Longlist for Young People’s Literature was announced on Monday, September 12:

• Kwame Alexander, Booked (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Kate DiCamillo, Raymie Nightingale (Candlewick Press)
• John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and 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)

The 2016 National Book Awards Longlist for Poetry was announced on Tuesday, September 13:

• 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)
• Jean 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)

The 2016 National Book Awards Longlist for Nonfiction was announced on Wednesday, September 14:

• 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/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/Penguin Random House)

The 2016 National Book Awards longlist for Fiction was announced on Thursday, September 15:

• 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/HarperCollins Publishers)
• 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/HarperCollins Publishers)

Six Authors Shortlisted for Man Booker Prize

On Tuesday, September 13, the Man Group announced the six authors shortlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. This is the third year that the prize has been open to writers of any nationality, and the shortlist is an even split between two British, two American, and two Canadian writers. The six titles were selected from books published in the U.K. between October 1, 2015, and September 30, 2016.

The 2016 shortlisted novels are:

• Paul Beatty (U.S.), The Sellout (Oneworld)
• Deborah Levy (U.K.), Hot Milk (Hamish Hamilton)
• Graeme Macrae Burnet (U.K.), His Bloody Project (Contraband)
• Ottessa Moshfegh (U.S.), Eileen (Jonathan Cape)
• David Szalay (Canada-U.K.), All That Man Is (Jonathan Cape)
• Madeleine Thien (Canada), Do Not Say We Have Nothing (Granta Books)

The shortlisted authors will each receive £2,500 and a specially bound edition of their book. The winner, which will be announced at a black-tie dinner in London on October 25, will receive a further £50,000.