2019 National Book Awards Longlist

1.
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland 4.47 avg rating β€” 149,037 ratings
2.
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous 4.02 avg rating β€” 375,054 ratings
3.
Thick: And Other Essays
Thick: And Other Essays 4.43 avg rating β€” 18,145 ratings
4.
Black Light
Black Light 3.79 avg rating β€” 1,675 ratings
5.
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest (American Music Series)
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest (American Music Series) 4.46 avg rating β€” 6,391 ratings
6.
What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
What You Have Heard Is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance 4.42 avg rating β€” 3,266 ratings
7.
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present 4.23 avg rating β€” 6,454 ratings
8.
Burn the Place: A Memoir
Burn the Place: A Memoir 3.63 avg rating β€” 3,376 ratings
9.
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership 4.26 avg rating β€” 1,258 ratings
10.
Trust Exercise
Trust Exercise 3.13 avg rating β€” 38,015 ratings
11.
Fleishman Is in Trouble
Fleishman Is in Trouble 3.65 avg rating β€” 89,465 ratings
12.
Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1)
Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1) 3.45 avg rating β€” 30,280 ratings
13.
The Need
The Need 3.15 avg rating β€” 16,925 ratings
14.
Sabrina & Corina
Sabrina & Corina 4.18 avg rating β€” 14,680 ratings
15.
Disappearing Earth
Disappearing Earth 3.83 avg rating β€” 56,367 ratings
16.
The Yellow House
The Yellow House 3.89 avg rating β€” 25,003 ratings
16.
The Nickel Boys
The Nickel Boys 4.26 avg rating β€” 291,000 ratings
18.
The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America
The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America 4.28 avg rating β€” 3,038 ratings
19.
Dunce
Dunce 3.93 avg rating β€” 665 ratings
20.
Build Yourself a Boat
Build Yourself a Boat 4.06 avg rating β€” 1,155 ratings
21.
Deaf Republic
Deaf Republic 4.39 avg rating β€” 9,320 ratings
22.
Space Invaders
Space Invaders 3.96 avg rating β€” 5,166 ratings
23.
The Memory Police
The Memory Police 3.71 avg rating β€” 124,210 ratings
24.
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead 3.95 avg rating β€” 137,670 ratings
25.
Death Is Hard Work
Death Is Hard Work 3.70 avg rating β€” 4,609 ratings
26.
Shout
Shout 4.25 avg rating β€” 21,797 ratings
27.
The Barefoot Woman
The Barefoot Woman 4.10 avg rating β€” 1,754 ratings
28.
Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All
Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All 3.85 avg rating β€” 5,777 ratings
29.
Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks
Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks 3.93 avg rating β€” 19,032 ratings
30.
Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement
Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement 4.42 avg rating β€” 4,017 ratings
31.
The Other Americans
The Other Americans 3.90 avg rating β€” 18,890 ratings
32.
Variations on Dawn and Dusk
Variations on Dawn and Dusk 3.72 avg rating β€” 82 ratings
33.
The Tradition
The Tradition 4.23 avg rating β€” 10,005 ratings
34.
I: New and Selected Poems (Pitt Poetry Series)
I: New and Selected Poems (Pitt Poetry Series) 4.24 avg rating β€” 98 ratings
35.
A Sand Book
A Sand Book 4.13 avg rating β€” 531 ratings
36.
Be Recorder: Poems
Be Recorder: Poems 3.96 avg rating β€” 498 ratings
37.
Sight Lines
Sight Lines 3.85 avg rating β€” 554 ratings
38.
Doomstead Days
Doomstead Days 4.18 avg rating β€” 150 ratings
39.
When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back
When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back 4.27 avg rating β€” 5,619 ratings
40.
The Collector of Leftover Souls: Field Notes on Brazil's Everyday Insurrections
The Collector of Leftover Souls: Field Notes on Brazil's Everyday Insurrections 4.29 avg rating β€” 902 ratings
41.
Will and Testament
Will and Testament 3.91 avg rating β€” 19,476 ratings
42.
Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming
Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming 4.17 avg rating β€” 1,247 ratings
43.
Crossing
Crossing 3.88 avg rating β€” 6,881 ratings
44.
The Undefeated
The Undefeated 4.63 avg rating β€” 7,180 ratings
45.
Pet (Pet, #1)
Pet (Pet, #1) 4.14 avg rating β€” 33,364 ratings
46.
A Place to Belong
A Place to Belong 4.06 avg rating β€” 1,552 ratings
47.
Patron Saints of Nothing
Patron Saints of Nothing 4.21 avg rating β€” 19,380 ratings
48.
1919 The Year That Changed America
1919 The Year That Changed America 3.88 avg rating β€” 478 ratings
49.
Out of Salem
Out of Salem 3.74 avg rating β€” 690 ratings
50.
Kiss Number 8
Kiss Number 8 3.95 avg rating β€” 6,472 ratings