The National Book Foundation has announced the long list of 10 books for the 2018 National Book Award for fiction. Finalists will be revealed on Oct. 10.
Fiction
Jamel Brinkley, “A Lucky Man” (Graywolf Press)
Jennifer Clement, “Gun Love” (Hogarth)
Lauren Groff, “Florida” (Riverhead)
Daniel Gumbiner, “The Boatbuilder” (McSweeney’s)
Brandon Hobson, “Where the Dead Sit Talking” (Soho Press)
Tayari Jones, “An American Marriage” (Algonquin)
Rebecca Makkai, “The Great Believers” (Viking)
Sigrid Nunez, “The Friend” (Riverhead)
Tommy Orange, “There There” (Knopf)
Nafissa Thompson-Spires, “Heads of the Colored People” (Atria)
Winners will be announced Nov. 14 at a ceremony in New York City.
Non Fiction
Carol Anderson, “One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy” (Bloomsbury)
Colin G. Calloway, “The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation” (Oxford University Press)
Steve Coll, “Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan” (Penguin Press)
Marwan Hisham and Molly Crabapple, “Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War” (One World)
Victoria Johnson, “American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic” (Liveright)
David Quammen, “The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life” (Simon & Schuster)
Sarah Smarsh, “Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth” (Scribner)
Rebecca Solnit, “Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays)” (Haymarket)
Jeffrey C. Stewart, “The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke” (Oxford)
Adam Winkler, “We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights” (Liveright)
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