NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE LONGLISTS FOR PUBLISHING YEAR 2024
CRITICISM LONGLIST:
Black Meme: A History of the Images that Make Us by Legacy Russell (Verso)
The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War by Jesse McCarthy (University of Chicago)
Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today by Claire Bishop (Verso)
Intervals by Marianne Brooker (Fitzcarraldo)
Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal (Tiny Reparations)
Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life by Sofia Samatar (Soft Skull)
Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative by Isabella Hammad (Black Cat)
There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib (Random House)
When The Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Write like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals by Ronnie A. Grinberg (Princeton University)
FICTION LONGLIST:
The Anthropologists by Ayşegül Savaş (Bloomsbury)
Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Colored Television by Danzy Senna (Riverhead)
Godwin by Joseph O’Neill (Pantheon)
Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham (Hogarth)
James by Percival Everett (Doubleday)
My Friends by Hisham Matar (Random House)
Sister Deborah by Scholastique Mukasonga, translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti (Archipelago)
Small Rain by Garth Greenwell (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Us Fools by Nora Lange (Two Dollar Radio)
AUTOBIOGRAPHY LONGLIST:
Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir by Tessa Hulls (MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History by Manjula Martin (Pantheon)
Like a Sky Inside by Jakuta Alikavazovic, translated from the French by Daniel Levin Becker (Fern)
Little Seed by Wei Tchou (Deep Vellum)
The Minotaur at Calle Lanza by Zito Madu (Belt)
Manboobs: A Memoir of Musicals, Visas, Hope, and Cake by Komail Aijazuddin (Abrams Press)
Mother Archive: A Dominican Family Memoir by Erika Morillo (University of Iowa)
My Good Bright Wolf: A Memoir by Sarah Moss (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Patriot: A Memoir by Alexei Navalny, translated from the Russian by Arch Tait with Stephen Dalziel (Knopf)
Women Surrounded by Water: A Memoir by Patricia Coral (Mad Creek)
BIOGRAPHY LONGLIST:
Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below by Jane Kamensky (W. W. Norton)
Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar by Cynthia Carr (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers by Jean Strouse (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
John Lewis: A Life by David Greenberg (Simon and Schuster)
Monet: The Restless Vision by Jackie Wullschläger (Knopf)
Night Flyer: Harriet Tubman and the Faith Dreams of a Free People by Tiya Miles (Penguin Press)
Reagan: His Life and Legend by Max Boot (Liveright)
The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon by Adam Shatz (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
True Believer: Hubert Humphrey’s Quest for a More Just America by James Traub (Basic Books)
The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at The New Yorker by Amy Reading (Mariner)
NONFICTION LONGLIST:
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq by Steve Coll (Penguin Press)
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham (Avid Reader)
A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery by Lawrence Ingrassia (Holt)
The Freaks Came Out To Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture by Tricia Romano (PublicAffairs)
Kent State: An American Tragedy by Brian VanDeMark (W. W. Norton)
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth by Zoë Schlanger (Harper)
Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood by Gretchen Sisson (St. Martin’s)
Slaveroad by John Edgar Wideman (Scribner)
There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib (Random House)
We’re Alone by Edwidge Danticat (Graywolf)
POETRY LONGLIST:
An Authentic Life by Jennifer Chang (Copper Canyon)
Cloud Missives by Kenzie Allen (Tin House)
Consider the Rooster by Oliver Baez Bendorf (Nightboat)
A Gaze Hound That Hunteth by the Eye by V. Penelope Pelizzon (University of Pittsburgh)
Instructions for the Lovers by Dawn Lundy Martin (Nightboat)
The Palace of Forty Pillars by Armen Davoudian (Tin House)
Scattered Snows, to the North by Carl Phillips (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Sturge Town by Kwame Dawes (W. W. Norton)
Wrong Norma by Anne Carson (New Directions)
Yard Show by Janice N. Harrington (BOA)
BARRIOS BOOK IN TRANSLATION PRIZE LONGLIST:
The Children of the Ghetto: Star of the Sea by Elias Khoury, translated from the Arabic by Humphrey Davies (Archipelago), Fiction
Herscht 07769 by László Krasznahorkai, translated from the Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet (New Directions), Fiction
Holy Winter 20/21 by Maria Stepanova, translated from the Russian by Sasha Dugdale (New Directions), Poetry
A Last Supper of Queer Apostles by Pedro Lemebel, translated from the Spanish by Gwendolyn Harper (Penguin Classics), Nonfiction
Like a Sky Inside by Jakuta Alikavazovic, translated from the French by Daniel Levin Becker (Fern), Nonfiction
Melvill by Rodrigo Fresán, translated from the Spanish by Will Vanderhyden (Open Letter), Fiction
Mourning a Breast by Xi Xi, translated from the Chinese by Jennifer Feeley (New York Review Books), Nonfiction
A Muzzle for Witches by Dubravka Ugrešić, translated from the Croatian by Ellen Elias- Bursać (Open Letter), Nonfiction
O by Judith Kiros, translated from the Swedish by Kira Josefsson (World Poetry), Poetry
Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel by Yoko Tawada, translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky (New Directions), Fiction
Traces of Enayat by Iman Mersal, translated from the Arabic by Robin Moger (Transit), Nonfiction
V13: Chronicle of a Trial by Emmanuel Carrère, translated from the French by John Lambert (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), Nonfiction