{"id":12087,"date":"2025-09-09T16:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T16:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/12087\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T16:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T16:48:08","slug":"the-2025-national-book-awards-longlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/12087\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2025 National Book Awards Longlist"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week, The New Yorker is announcing the longlists for the 2025 National Book Awards, including Young People\u2019s Literature<\/a>, Translated Literature<\/a>, Poetry, Nonfiction, and Fiction. Check back through Friday as more honorees are named, and sign up for our daily newsletter<\/a> to receive the longlists in your inbox.<\/p>\n

Translated Literature<\/p>\n

In March, Alice Gregory reviewed<\/a> Vincenzo Latronico\u2019s \u201cPerfection\u201d\u2014an Italian-language novel about the beautiful, aimless life of an expat millennial couple in Berlin, which reimagines Georges Perec\u2019s d\u00e9but \u201cThings: A Story of the Sixties<\/a>\u201d (1965) in the twenty-tens. \u201cPerfection,\u201d translated into English by Sophie Hughes, is one of ten titles on this year\u2019s longlist. The books on the list originally appeared in nine languages: Arabic, Danish, Dutch, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, and Uzbek. Hamid Ismailov\u2019s \u201cWe Computers: A Ghazal Novel,\u201d about a French poet who devises an A.I. program to replicate Persian poetry, is the first Uzbek translation to be honored by the National Book Awards.<\/p>\n

Solvej Balle, \u201cOn the Calculation of Volume (Book III)<\/a>\u201d
Translated from the Danish by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell
New Directions<\/p>\n

Jazmina Barrera, \u201cThe Queen of Swords<\/a>\u201d
Translated from the Spanish by Christina MacSweeney
Two Lines<\/p>\n

Gabriela Cabez\u00f3n C\u00e1mara, \u201cWe Are Green and Trembling<\/a>\u201d
Translated from the Spanish by Robin Myers
New Directions<\/p>\n

Anjet Daanje, \u201cThe Remembered Soldier<\/a>\u201d
Translated from the Dutch by David McKay
New Vessel<\/p>\n

Saou Ichikawa, \u201cHunchback<\/a>\u201d
Translated from the Japanese by Polly Barton
Hogarth \/ Penguin Random House<\/p>\n

Hamid Ismailov, \u201cWe Computers: A Ghazal Novel<\/a>\u201d
Translated from the Uzbek by Shelley Fairweather-Vega
Yale<\/p>\n

Han Kang, \u201cWe Do Not Part<\/a>\u201d
Translated from the Korean by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris
Hogarth \/ Penguin Random House<\/p>\n

Mohamed Kheir, \u201cSleep Phase<\/a>\u201d
Translated from the Arabic by Robin Moger
Two Lines<\/p>\n

Vincenzo Latronico, \u201cPerfection<\/a>\u201d
Translated from the Italian by Sophie Hughes
New York Review Books<\/p>\n

Neige Sinno, \u201cSad Tiger<\/a>\u201d
Translated from the French by Natasha Lehrer
Seven Stories<\/p>\n

The judges for the category this year are Stesha Brandon, the literature and humanities program manager at the Seattle Public Library; Sergio Guti\u00e9rrez Negr\u00f3n, a professor of Hispanic studies at Oberlin College and the author of several books, including the novel \u201cLos d\u00edas h\u00e1biles\u201d; Bill Johnston, a translator of Polish and French literature whose rendition of Adam Mickiewicz\u2019s \u201cPan Tadeusz<\/a>\u201d won the 2019 National Translation Award in Poetry; Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel, a professor of Romance studies at Duke University; and Karen Tei Yamashita, a professor emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the author of ten books, including the novel \u201cI Hotel.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

Young People\u2019s Literature<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s longlist includes works of fiction, nonfiction, graphic novels, and novels in verse. Several of the titles contend with grief and loss among young people; a few, such as Kyle Lukoff\u2019s \u201cA World Worth Saving\u201d and Mahogany L. Browne\u2019s \u201cA Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe,\u201d wrestle with the ruptures of the COVID-19 pandemic. Four of the authors on the longlist\u2014Derrick Barnes, Kyle Lukoff, Amber McBride, and Ibi Zoboi\u2014have been finalists in the category before.<\/p>\n

Mar\u00eda Dolores \u00c1guila, \u201cA Sea of Lemon Trees: The Corrido of Roberto Alvarez<\/a>\u201d
Roaring Brook \/ Macmillan<\/p>\n

K. Ancrum, \u201cThe Corruption of Hollis Brown<\/a>\u201d
HarperCollins<\/p>\n

Derrick Barnes, \u201cThe Incredibly Human Henson Blayze<\/a>\u201d
Viking \/ Penguin Random House<\/p>\n

Mahogany L. Browne, \u201cA Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe<\/a>\u201d
Crown \/ Penguin Random House<\/p>\n

Kyle Lukoff, \u201cA World Worth Saving<\/a>\u201d
Dial \/ Penguin Random House<\/p>\n

Amber McBride, \u201cThe Leaving Room<\/a>\u201d
Feiwel & Friends \/ Macmillan<\/p>\n

Daniel Nayeri, \u201cThe Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story<\/a>\u201d
Levine Querido<\/p>\n

Hannah V. Sawyerr, \u201cTruth Is<\/a>\u201d
Amulet \/ Abrams<\/p>\n

Maria van Lieshout, \u201cSong of a Blackbird<\/a>\u201d
First Second \/ Macmillan<\/p>\n

Ibi Zoboi, \u201c(S)Kin<\/a>\u201d
Versify \/ HarperCollins<\/p>\n

The judges for the category this year are Cathy Berner, a bookseller at Blue Willow Bookshop and a former school librarian; David Bowles, a professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and the author of dozens of books, including \u201cMy Two Border Towns<\/a>\u201d; the young-adult author candice iloh, whose book \u201cEvery Body Looking<\/a>\u201d was a 2020 National Book Award finalist; Jung Kim, a professor of education at Lewis University; and the actor Maulik Pancholy, best known for his roles as Jonathan on \u201c30 Rock\u201d and Baljeet on \u201cPhineas and Ferb.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more information about the 76th National Book Awards and to register to watch the winners announced live, please visit nationalbook.org\/awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week, The New Yorker is announcing the longlists for the 2025 National Book Awards, including Young People\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[489,156,1173,5712,14622,111,139,14621,14620,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-12087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-fiction","11":"tag-literature","12":"tag-national-book-awards","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-nonfiction","16":"tag-novels","17":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}