The National Book Foundation announced the longlist of nominees for the 2015 National Book Awards, which celebrate the best of American literature. The National Book Award finalists will be announced on October 14 and the winners will be announced on November 18.
FICTION
A Cure for Suicide by Jesse Ball
Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg
Refund by Karen E. Bender
The Turner House by Angela Flournoy (eBook)
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff (CD book)
Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson
Welcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo Johnson
Honeydew by Edith Pearlman
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (eBook)
Mislaid by Nell Zink
NONFICTION
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History by Cynthia Barnett
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (eBook)
Mourning Lincoln by Martha Hodes
Hold Still by Sally Mann
The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery
Paradise of the Pacific by Susanna Moore
Love and Other Ways of Dying: Essays by Michael Paterniti
If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran by Carla Power
Ordinary Light by Tracy K. Smith (eBook)
Travels in Vermeer: A Memoir by Michael White