{
  "id": 7838873,
  "title": "Here’s the longlist for the 2026 National Book Award for Nonfiction.",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/heres-the-longlist-for-the-2026-national-book-award-for-nonfiction",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-16T18:00:50.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Literary Hub",
    "slug": "literary-hub",
    "url": "https://lithub.com/heres-the-longlist-for-the-2026-national-book-award-for-nonfiction/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The National Book Foundation has unveiled the longlist for the 2026 National Book Award for Nonfiction. This distinguished group of ten books was chosen from an extensive pool of 727 submissions received from publishers. This year, the esteemed judges for the Nonfiction category include Eve L. Ewing, Audrey I-Wei Huang, Jonathan C. Slaght, Robert Warrior (Chair), and Lidia Yuknavitch. The final decision of the finalists across all categories will be revealed on October 6, with the winners taking center stage at the highly anticipated National Book Awards Ceremony on November 18.\n\nBelow is the list of the 2026 Nonfiction longlist:\n\n1. Rozina Ali's \"Seasons of Fury: Four Families and the Rise of Islamophobia in America\" released by Crown / Penguin Random House.\n2. Colin Asher's \"The Midnight Special: The Secret Prison History of American Music\" published by W. W. Norton & Company.\n3. W. W. Norton & Company's \"Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground\" by Zayd Ayers Dohrn.\n4. Camonghne Felix's \"Let the Poets Govern: A Declaration of Freedom\" published by One World / Penguin Random House.\n5. Wil Haygood's \"The War Within a War: The Black Struggle in Vietnam and at Home\" released by Knopf / Penguin Random House.\n6. Sara Nović's \"Mother Tongue\" published by Random House / Penguin Random House.\n7. Joseph Osmundson's \"Spawning Season: An Experiment in Queer Parenthood\" published by Bloomsbury Publishing.\n8. Angela Pelster's \"The Evolution of Fire: Essays on Crisis and Becoming\" released by Milkweed Editions.\n9. Wendy S. Walters' \"A Dead White: An Argument Against White Paint\" published by Scribner / Simon & Schuster.",
  "summary": "Today, the National Book Foundation announced the longlist for the 2026 National Book Award for Nonfiction. These ten titles were selected from a pool of 727 books submitted for consideration by their publishers. This year’s judges for Nonfiction are Eve",
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Literary Hub",
        "title": "Here’s the longlist for the 2026 National Book Award for Poetry.",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/heres-the-longlist-for-the-2026-national-book-award-for-poetry",
        "published": "2026-09-16T14:00:36.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}