National Book Awards Longlist for Nonfiction 2025 - Reaction

National Book Awards Longlist for Nonfiction 2025 - Reaction Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This Knopf / Penguin Random House Caleb Gayle, Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House Julia Ioffe, Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy Ecco / HarperCollins Publishers Fatemeh Jamalpour and Nilo Tabrizy, For the Sun After Long Nights: The Story of Iran’s Women-Led Uprising Pantheon Books / Penguin Random House Yiyun Li, Things in Nature Merely Grow Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers Lana Lin, The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam Dorothy, a publishing project Ben Ratliff, Run the Song: Writing About Running About Listening Graywolf Press Claudia Rowe, Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care Abrams Press / Abrams Jordan Thomas, When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House Helen Whybrow, The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd’s Life Milkweed Editions