Thursday, September 17, 2015

Coates, Smith on National Book Award Nonfiction Longlist

Publishers Lunch


The National Book Awards announced their nonfiction longlist Wednesday morning, with roughly half of the ten books on the list falling into the memoir category (including the much-acclaimed and strong-selling book by Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith's chronicle of her life.) The full list includes:

Cynthia Barnett, Rain: A Natural and Cultural History (Crown)
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (Spiegel & Grau)
Martha Hodes, Mourning Lincoln (Yale University Press)
Sally Mann, Hold Still (Little, Brown)
Sy Montgomery, The Soul of an Octopus (Atria)
Susanna Moore, Paradise of the Pacific: Approaching Hawai'i (FSG)
Michael Paterniti, Love and Other Ways of Dying (The Dial Press)
Carla Power, If the Oceans Were Ink (Henry Holt)
Tracy K. Smith, Ordinary Light: A Memoir (Knopf)
Michael White, Travels in Vermeer: A Memoir (Persea)

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