National Book Award non-fiction long list announced

The National Book Foundation, which puts on the National Book Awards each year, is rolling out the long lists for its prestigious awards all week. The foundation announced the long list for non-fiction Wednesday, and it includes The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (Simon & Schuster) by Walter Isaacson, author of No. 1 Paste BN best seller Steve Jobs, among nine other authors.

See the rest of the long list below:

• Roz Chast, Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? (Bloomsbury)
• John Demos, The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic (Alfred A. Knopf/ Random) House
• Anand Gopal, No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes (Metropolitan Books/ Henry Holt and Company)
• Nigel Hamilton, The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941 - 1942 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• John Lahr, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh (W.W. Norton & Company)
• Evan Osnos, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Ronald C. Rosbottom, When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944 (Little, Brown and Company/ Hachette Book Group)
• Matthew Stewart, Nature's God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic (W.W. Norton & Company)
• Edward O. Wilson, The Meaning of Human Existence (Liveright Publishing Corporation/ W.W. Norton & Company)

The long lists for Young People's literature and Poetry were announced earlier this week.

Young People's literature:

• Carl Hiaasen, Skink—No Surrender (Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers/ Random House)
• Kate Milford, Greenglass House (Clarion Books/ Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Eliot Schrefer, Threatened (Scholastic Press/ Scholastic)
• Steve Sheinkin, The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights (Roaring Brook Press/ Macmillan Publishers)
• Andrew Smith, 100 Sideways Miles (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers/ Simon & Schuster)
• John Corey Whaley, Noggin (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/ Simon & Schuster)
• Deborah Wiles, Revolution: The Sixties Trilogy, Book Two (Scholastic Press/ Scholastic)
• Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming (Nancy Paulsen Books/ Penguin Group (USA)
• Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory (Viking/ Penguin Group (USA))
• Gail Giles, Girls Like Us (Candlewick Press)

Poetry:

• Linda Bierds, Roget's Illusion (G. P. Putnam's Sons/ Penguin Group (USA))
• Brian Blanchfield, A Several World (Nightboat Books)
• Louise Glück, Faithful and Virtuous Night (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Edward Hirsch, Gabriel: A Poem (Alfred A. Knopf/ Random House)
• Fanny Howe, Second Childhood (Graywolf Press)
• Maureen N. McLane, This Blue (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Fred Moten, The Feel Trio (Letter Machine Editions)
• Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf Press)
• Spencer Reece, The Road to Emmaus (Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Mark Strand, Collected Poems (Alfred A. Knopf/ Random House)

The long list for fiction will be announced Thursday. Finalists who make the shortlist will be revealed on Oct. 15. The National Book Awards will be held on Nov. 19 in New York.