Today, the National Book Foundation announced the longlist for the 2026 National Book Award for Nonfiction. These 10 titles were selected from a excavation of 727 books submitted for information by their publishers. This year’s judges for Nonfiction are Eve L. Ewing, Audrey I-Wei Huang, Jonathan C. Slaght, Robert Warrior (Chair), and Lidia Yuknavitch.
The finalists successful each categories volition beryllium announced connected Tuesday, October 6, and the winners revealed astatine the 77th National Book Awards Ceremony connected November 18.
In the meantime, here’s the 2026 Nonfiction longlist:
Rozina Ali, Seasons of Fury: Four Families and the Rise of Islamophobia successful America
Crown / Penguin Random House
Colin Asher, The Midnight Special: The Secret Prison History of American Music
W. W. Norton & Company
Zayd Ayers Dohrn, Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family successful the Revolutionary Underground
W. W. Norton & Company
Abdelrahman ElGendy, Huna: A Memoir of Revolution, Prison, and Becoming
Hogarth / Penguin Random House
Camonghne Felix, Let the Poets Govern: A Declaration of Freedom
One World / Penguin Random House
Wil Haygood, The War Within a War: The Black Struggle successful Vietnam and astatine Home
Knopf / Penguin Random House
Sara Nović, Mother Tongue
Random House / Penguin Random House
Joseph Osmundson, Spawning Season: An Experiment successful Queer Parenthood
Bloomsbury Publishing
Angela Pelster, The Evolution of Fire: Essays connected Crisis and Becoming
Milkweed Editions
Wendy S. Walters, A Dead White: An Argument Against White Paint
Scribner / Simon & Schuster
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