{"id":303553,"date":"2026-07-23T06:47:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T06:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/303553\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T06:47:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T06:47:36","slug":"brooklyn-public-library-announces-longlist-for-2026-book-prize-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/303553\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Public Library announces longlist for 2026 Book Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOROUGHWIDE \u2014 BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY\u2019S 2026 Book Prize longlist was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bklynlibrary.org\/media\/press\/brooklyn-public-library-169\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">announced<\/a> Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The BPL\u2019s Book Prize longlist spans genres and formats, with titles hand-picked by librarians and staff from 135 books. The BPL picks new books that resonate with Brooklyn audiences. The fiction category includes Zoe Dubno\u2019s \u201cHappiness and Love,\u201d Kate Folk\u2019s \u201cSky Daddy,\u201d and Gish Jen\u2019s \u201cBad Bad Girl.\u201d The nonfiction category includes \u201cBorn in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City\u201d by Bench Ansfield, \u201cThe Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders\u201d by Sarah Aziza, and \u201cBaldwin: A Love Story\u201d by Nicholas Bogg.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom our home in New York City to Appalachia, and from Shanghai to Paris, the books on the 2026 Brooklyn Book Prize longlist consider the strength of the human spirit, often up against impossible odds,\u201d said Linda E. Johnson, president and CEO of the BPL. \u201cThe extraordinary talent represented here showcases the beauty and meaning we can discover when writers are free to express themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Book Prize was first established in collaboration with the Brooklyn Eagles, a group of young and engaged Brooklynites who are passionate about the BPL, working to engage new patrons, promote the Library as a cultural center and build a vibrant community around the library\u2019s resources.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2730\u2730\u2730<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <a style=\"font-size: inherit; background-color: #fefefe;\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyneagle.com\/whats-news-breaking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wnb-read-more aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/read-more-wnb-shad-1024x341.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOROUGHWIDE \u2014 BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY\u2019S 2026 Book Prize longlist was announced Tuesday.\u00a0 The BPL\u2019s Book Prize longlist spans&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[2470,2878,3302,98,100,99,16073,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-303553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-awards","tag-books","tag-breaking","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-brooklyn-public-library-bpl","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}