Read four acclaimed books longlisted for the National Book Awards

The National Book Foundation announced the longlist for the 2025 National Book Awards, including Angela Flournoy's The Wilderness, longlisted for Fiction, Julia Ioffe's Motherland, longlisted for Nonfiction, and K. Ancrum's The Corruption of Hollis Brown and Ibi Zoboi's (S)Kin, both longlisted for Young People's Literature.

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Longlisted for Fiction

An era-defining novel about five Black women over the course of their twenty-year friendship, as they move through the dizzying and sometimes precarious period between young adulthood and midlife—in the much-anticipated second book from National Book Award finalist Angela Flournoy.

Longlisted for Nonfiction

Acclaimed journalist Julia Ioffe tells the story of modern Russia through the history of its women, from revolution to utopia to autocracy.

Longlisted for Young People’s Literature

From award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Ibi Zoboi comes her groundbreaking contemporary fantasy debut about the power of inherited magic and the price we must pay to live the life we yearn for.

Longlisted for Young People’s Literature

From acclaimed author K. Ancrum comes a queer romantic thriller in which the lives of Hollis, a boy in search of meaning, and Walt, a spirit with unfinished business, collide when Walt takes possession of Hollis's body...and maybe his heart.