{"id":155233,"date":"2025-09-14T02:23:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T02:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/155233\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T02:23:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T02:23:26","slug":"the-2025-national-book-awards-longlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/155233\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2025 National Book Awards Longlist"},"content":{"rendered":"

The judges for the category this year are the poet and activist Heather Kathleen Moody Hall, proprietor of Green Feather Book Company; Tiya Miles, a history professor at Harvard whose book, \u201cAll That She Carried<\/a>,\u201d won the 2021 National Book Award; the journalist and filmmaker Raj Patel, author of \u201cStuffed and Starved<\/a>\u201d; Cristina Rivera Garza, a professor at the University of Houston whose 2024 book \u201cLiliana\u2019s Invincible Summer<\/a>\u201d won the Pulitzer Prize; and the New York Times reporter Eli Saslow, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 2014 and 2023.<\/p>\n

Poetry<\/p>\n

This year, The New Yorker published poems from six of the ten poetry collections that appear on this year\u2019s longlist: \u201cPiano Lesson<\/a>,\u201d by Richard Siken; \u201cTrue Apothecary<\/a>,\u201d by Natalie Shapero; \u201cMaybe in Another Life<\/a>,\u201d by Tiana Clark; \u201cHammond B3 Organ Cistern<\/a>,\u201d by Gabrielle Calvocoressi; \u201c70<\/a>,\u201d by Patricia Smith; and an excerpt of \u201cSometimes Tropic of New Orleans<\/a>,\u201d by Rickey Laurentiis. Nine of the nominees are being honored by the National Book Awards for the first time; Smith, long-listed this year for \u201cThe Intentions of Thunder,\u201d was a finalist in 2008.<\/p>\n

Gbenga Adesina, \u201cDeath Does Not End at the Sea<\/a>\u201d
University of Nebraska<\/p>\n

Gabrielle Calvocoressi, \u201cThe New Economy<\/a>\u201d
Copper Canyon<\/p>\n

Cathy Linh Che, \u201cBecoming Ghost<\/a>\u201d
Washington Square \/ Simon & Schuster<\/p>\n

Tiana Clark, \u201cScorched Earth<\/a>\u201d
Washington Square \/ Simon & Schuster<\/p>\n

Rickey Laurentiis, \u201cDeath of the First Idea<\/a>\u201d
Knopf \/ Penguin Random House<\/p>\n

Esther Lin, \u201cCold Thief Place<\/a>\u201d
Alice James Books<\/p>\n

Natalie Shapero, \u201cStay Dead<\/a>\u201d
Copper Canyon<\/p>\n

Richard Siken, \u201cI Do Know Some Things<\/a>\u201d
Copper Canyon<\/p>\n

Patricia Smith, \u201cThe Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems<\/a>\u201d
Scribner \/ Simon & Schuster<\/p>\n

Fargo Nissim Tbakhi, \u201cTerror Counter<\/a>\u201d
Deep Vellum<\/p>\n

The judges for the category this year are Kate Daniels, author of the recent poetry collection \u201cIn the Months of My Son\u2019s Recovery<\/a>\u201d; Terrance Hayes, whose collection \u201cLighthead<\/a>\u201d won the 2010 National Book Award; H. Melt, author of \u201cThere Are Trans People Here<\/a>\u201d; Anis Mojgani, who recently served as Oregon\u2019s tenth poet laureate; and Caridad Moro-Gronlier, author of \u201cTortillera<\/a>.\u201d<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The judges for the category this year are the poet and activist Heather Kathleen Moody Hall, proprietor of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[223,88,3865,7970,95037,3810,22112],"class_list":["post-155233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-entertainment","tag-fiction","tag-literature","tag-national-book-awards","tag-nonfiction","tag-novels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}