10 books on non-fiction long list for 2017 National Book Awards
The National Book Foundation has announced the long list of 10 books for the 2017 National Book Award for non-fiction. Finalists will be revealed on Oct. 4.
The nominees:
Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge (Atria / 37 INK)
More: Review: 'Never Caught'
Frances FitzGerald, The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America (Simon & Schuster)
James Forman, Jr., Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Masha Gessen, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia (Riverhead)
David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Doubleday)
More: Review: 'Killers of the Flower Moon'
Naomi Klein, No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need (Haymarket)
Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America (Viking)
Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Liveright)
Timothy B. Tyson, The Blood of Emmett Till (Simon & Schuster)
More: Review: 'The Blood of Emmett Till'
Kevin Young, Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News (Graywolf)
The National Book Award winners will be announced at a ceremony in New York on Nov. 15.
