Yahoo Lifestyle National Book Critics Circle Awards Announces First-Ever Longlist for Nonfiction
The organization, which awards the nation’s only major literary prize chose by critics, is sharing six longlists for its 50th anniversary
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A selection of books longlisted for the NBCC Award for NonfictionThe National Book Critics Circle Awards has announced its longlist for the nonfiction genre.
On Dec. 18, the organization shared the longlist, marking the fifth of six longlists shared, for the first time, in honor of the NBCC’s 50th anniversary.
Each year, the organization “honors outstanding writing and fosters a national conversation about reading, criticism and literature,” according to their website. The National Books Critics Circle Awards is the only national literary prize chosen solely by book critics.
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'The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture' by Tricia Romano“The NBCC is proud to release our longlists for the first time in our 50-year history,” NBCC President Heather Scott Partington said in a previous announcement. “Revealing them allows us to honor more writers, translators and books than we ever have in a single year. The best books of 2024 were narratives of resilience, interrogation and imagination. They asked us to question power, art and genre."
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The longlist for Nonfiction includes:
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
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
Other award categories include fiction, biography, autobiography, criticism and poetry. The NBCC will also bestow the Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize and the John Leonard Prize, for the best debut book in any genre.
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'We're Alone' by Edwidge Danticat"At a time when the freedom to read is under attack, we’re thrilled to shout these authors’ names from the rooftops,” Partington said. “We celebrate their fearlessness and artistic vision. These are vital words.”
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The 2023 nonfiction winner was We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna Asgarian.
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The 2024 finalists for the NBCC Awards will be announced on Jan. 23, 2025. Awards will be presented on March 20, 2025.
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