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2025 NBCC Award Longlists

• Fiction

  • Karen Russell

    The Antidote Knopf

  • Katie Kitamura

    Audition Riverhead

  • Madeleine Thien

    The Book of Records W.W. Norton

  • Lily King

    Heart the Lover Grove

  • Ayşegül Savaş

    Long Distance Bloomsbury

  • Solvej Balle, translated from the Danish by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell

    On the Calculation of Volume (Book III) New Directions

  • Caren Beilin

    Sea, Poison New Directions

  • Tash Aw

    The South Farrar, Straus and Giroux

  • Han Kang, translated from the Korean by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris

    We Do Not Part Hogarth

  • Angela Flournoy

    The Wilderness Mariner

• Nonfiction

  • Greg Grandin

    America, América: A New History of the New World Penguin Press

  • Barbara Demick

    Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins Random House

  • Karen Hao

    Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI Penguin Press

  • Brandy Schillace

    The Intermediaries: A Weimar Story W. W. Norton

  • Scott Anderson

    King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution, a Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation Doubleday

  • Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

    Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings Harper

  • Gardiner Harris

    No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson Random House

  • Aatish Taseer

    A Return to Self: Excursions in Exile Catapult

  • Michael Koresky

    Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness Bloomsbury

  • Michael Luo

    Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America Doubleday

• Biography

  • Sam Tanenhaus

    Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America Random House

  • Gregory Jusdanis and Peter Jeffreys

    Constantine Cavafy: A New Biography Farrar, Straus and Giroux

  • Mayukh Sen

    Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star W. W. Norton

  • Alex Green

    A Perfect Turmoil: Walter E. Fernald and the Struggle to Care for America's Disabled Bellevue Literary Press

  • Amanda Vaill

    Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution Farrar, Straus and Giroux

  • Ashley D. Farmer

    Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore Pantheon

  • Claire Hoffman

    Sister, Sinner: The Miraculous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson Farrar, Straus and Giroux

  • Carla Kaplan

    Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford Harper

  • Sue Prideaux

    Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin W. W. Norton

  • Philip Hoare

    William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love Pegasus Books

• Autobiography

  • Margaret Atwood

    Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts Doubleday

  • Michael Thomas

    The Broken King Grove

  • Hala Alyan

    I'll Tell You When I'm Home Avid Reader Press

  • Geraldine Brooks

    Memorial Days Viking

  • Arundhati Roy

    Mother Mary Comes to Me Scribner

  • Beth Macy

    Paper Girl Penguin

  • Hanif Kureishi

    Shattered Ecco

  • Yiyun Li

    Things in Nature Merely Grow Farrar, Straus and Giroux

  • Miriam Toews

    A Truce That Is Not Peace Bloomsbury

  • Hester Kaplan

    Twice Born: Finding My Father In the Margins of Biography Catapult

• Poetry

  • Camille Ralphs

    After You Were, I Am McSweeney's

  • Yuki Tanaka

    Chronicle of Drifting Copper Canyon

  • Rickey Laurentiis

    Death of the First Idea Knopf

  • Arthur Sze

    Into the Hush Copper Canyon

  • Kevin Young

    Night Watch Knopf

  • Henri Cole

    The Other Love Farrar, Straus and Giroux

  • Hedgie Choi

    Salvage University of Wisconsin

  • Gary Jackson

    small lives University of New Mexico

  • Natalie Shapero

    Stay Dead Copper Canyon

  • Tolu Oloruntoba

    Unravel McClelland & Stewart

• Criticism

  • A.S. Hamrah

    Algorithm of the Night: Film Writing, 2019-2025 n+1

  • Andrea Long Chu

    Authority: Essays Farrar, Straus and Giroux

  • Rasheedah Phillips

    Dismantling the Master's Clock: On Race, Space, and Time AK Press

  • Ian Penman

    Erik Satie Three Piece Suite Semiotext(e)

  • Yoko Tawada, translated from the Japanese by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda

    Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue New Directions

  • Joanna Pocock

    Greyhound Soft Skull Press

  • Quinn Slobodian

    Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right Zone Books

  • Hito Steyerl

    Medium Hot: Images in the Age of Heat Verso Books

  • Omar El Akkad

    One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Knopf

  • Viet Thanh Nguyen

    To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other Harvard University Press

• Gregg Barrios Book in Translation

  • Elvira Hernández, translated from the Spanish by Daniel Borzutzky and Alec Schumacher

    Bodies Found in Various Places Cardboard House

  • Yoko Tawada, translated from the Japanese by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda

    Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue New Directions

  • Nasser Rabah, translated from the Arabic by Ammiel Alcalay, Emna Zghal and Khaled Al-Hilli

    Gaza: The Poem Said Its Piece City Lights

  • Banu Mushtaq, translated from the Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi

    Heart Lamp And Other Stories

  • Hanna Stoltenberg, translated from the Norwegian by Wendy H. Gabrielsen

    Near Distance Biblioasis

  • Neige Sinno, translated from the French by Natasha Lehrer

    Sad Tiger Seven Stories

  • Markus Werner, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann

    The Frog in the Throat NYRB

  • Ye Hui, translated from the Chinese by Dong Li

    The Ruins Deep Vellum

  • Olga Ravn, translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken

    The Wax Child New Directions

  • Moshtari Hilal, translated from the German by Elisabeth Lauffer

    Ugliness New Vessel Press

  • Han Kang, translated from the Korean by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris

    We Do Not Part Hogarth

  • Christian Lehnert, translated from the German by Richard Sieburth

    Wickerwork Archipelago