Make room on Watch Baddies Vol. 4 Onlineyour "to-be-read" list—National Book Awards season is here!
This week, the National Book Foundation is announcing the books longlisted for the 2017 National Book Awards.
SEE ALSO: Barbershop Books is using barbershops to inspire young black boys to readThe National Book Awards is an annual celebration of the best and brightest in American literature. Each year, the National Book Awards honors four literary categories: Young People's Literature, Poetry, Nonfiction, and Fiction.
Past winners have included Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad (2016 Fiction winner), Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell's March: Book Three(2016 Young People's Literature winner), Ta-Nehisi Coates' letter to his son Between The World And Me(2015 Nonfiction winner), and Robin Coste Lewis' Voyage of the Sable Venus (2015 poetry winner).
One notable addition to this year's longlist is Angie Thomas' Black Lives Matter-inspired YA novel, The Hate U Give. The book follows a young teen named Starr Carter who witnesses her unarmed friend Khalil get shot and killed by a police officer during a traffic stop. The book has been a mainstay on the New York Times Best Sellers list, and MashReads called The Hate U Givethe one book you should read this year."
The National Book Foundation will be announcing one category from its longlist each day this week: Young People's Literature on Tuesday, Sept. 12; Poetry on Wednesday, Sept. 13; Nonfiction on Thursday, Sept. 14; and Fiction on Friday, Sept. 15. We'll be updating this post each day with each new announced category.
The finalists for the 2017 National Book Awards will be announced on October 4, and the winners of the 2017 National Book Awards will be revealed on November 15.
In the meantime, check out the longlisted books below.
Young People's Literature
What Girls Are Made Ofby Elana K. Arnold
Far from the Treeby Robin Benway
All the Wind in the World by Samantha Mabry
You Bring the Distant Nearby Mitali Perkins
Long Way Downby Jason Reynolds
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez
Orphan Islandby Laurel Snyder
The Hate U Giveby Angie Thomas
Clayton Byrd Goes Undergroundby Rita Williams-Garcia
American Streetby Ibi Zoboi
Poetry
Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016by Frank Bidart
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilitiesby Chen Chen
The Book of Endingsby Leslie Harrison
Magdalene: Poemsby Marie Howe
Where Now: New and Selected Poemsby Laura Kasischke
WHEREASby Layli Long Soldier
In Language of My Captorby Shane McCrae
Square Inch Hoursby Sherod Santos
Don't Call Us Dead: Poemsby Danez Smith
Afterlandby Mai Der Vang
Nonfiction
Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judgeby Erica Armstrong Dunbar
The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape Americaby Frances FitzGerald
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman, Jr.
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russiaby Masha Gessen
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBIby David Grann
No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Needby Naomi Klein
Democracy In Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for Americaby Nancy MacLean
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated Americaby Richard Rothstein
The Blood of Emmett Tillby Timothy B. Tyson
Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, And Fake Newsby Kevin Young
Fiction
Dark at the Crossingby Elliot Ackerman
The King Is Always Above The People: Storiesby Daniel Alarcón
Miss Burmaby Charmaine Craig
Manhattan Beachby Jennifer Egan
The Leaversby Lisa Ko
Pachinkoby Min Jin Lee
Her Body and Other Parties: Storiesby Carmen Maria Machado
A Kind of Freedomby Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
Sing, Unburied, Singby Jesmyn Ward
Barren Islandby Carol Zoref
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