2021 National Book Awards Longlist

1.
Winter in Sokcho
Winter in Sokcho 3.54 avg rating — 26,191 ratings
2.
Tastes Like War
Tastes Like War 3.91 avg rating — 13,909 ratings
3.
The Legend of Auntie Po
The Legend of Auntie Po 4.05 avg rating — 2,860 ratings
3.
Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Last Night at the Telegraph Club 4.20 avg rating — 110,602 ratings
5.
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois 4.51 avg rating — 39,953 ratings
6.
Matrix
Matrix 3.68 avg rating — 64,938 ratings
7.
The Prophets
The Prophets 3.91 avg rating — 21,638 ratings
8.
Bewilderment
Bewilderment 3.91 avg rating — 68,465 ratings
9.
Intimacies
Intimacies 3.64 avg rating — 38,879 ratings
10.
Hell of a Book
Hell of a Book 4.03 avg rating — 25,826 ratings
11.
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together 4.62 avg rating — 20,496 ratings
12.
Waiting for the Waters to Rise
Waiting for the Waters to Rise 3.42 avg rating — 700 ratings
12.
Twice Alive
Twice Alive 3.87 avg rating — 224 ratings
14.
A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure
A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure 3.88 avg rating — 321 ratings
14.
The Sunflower Cast a Spell To Save Us From The Void
The Sunflower Cast a Spell To Save Us From The Void 3.84 avg rating — 608 ratings
16.
Peach Blossom Paradise
Peach Blossom Paradise
by: Ge Fei
4.07 avg rating — 508 ratings
17.
The Twilight Zone
The Twilight Zone 4.18 avg rating — 4,520 ratings
18.
A Snake Falls to Earth
A Snake Falls to Earth 3.94 avg rating — 11,534 ratings
18.
When We Cease to Understand the World
When We Cease to Understand the World 4.11 avg rating — 56,512 ratings
20.
Rabbit Island
Rabbit Island 3.15 avg rating — 584 ratings
21.
In Memory of Memory
In Memory of Memory 3.84 avg rating — 2,143 ratings
22.
Planet of Clay
Planet of Clay 3.59 avg rating — 269 ratings
23.
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Cloud Cuckoo Land 4.25 avg rating — 254,473 ratings
24.
Abundance
Abundance 3.83 avg rating — 1,900 ratings
25.
Zorrie
Zorrie 3.84 avg rating — 8,826 ratings
26.
The Souvenir Museum
The Souvenir Museum 3.47 avg rating — 2,760 ratings
27.
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance 4.59 avg rating — 9,718 ratings
28.
Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains
Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains 3.83 avg rating — 633 ratings
29.
The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice
The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice 4.19 avg rating — 1,307 ratings
30.
Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America 3.61 avg rating — 1,127 ratings
31.
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War
The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War 4.22 avg rating — 1,081 ratings
32.
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake 3.93 avg rating — 7,986 ratings
33.
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America 4.70 avg rating — 38,099 ratings
34.
The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship (NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis)
The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship (NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis) 4.48 avg rating — 69 ratings
35.
The Wild Fox of Yemen: Poems
The Wild Fox of Yemen: Poems 4.21 avg rating — 552 ratings
36.
Ghost Letters
Ghost Letters really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
37.
What Noise Against the Cane (Volume 115) (Yale Series of Younger Poets)
What Noise Against the Cane (Volume 115) (Yale Series of Younger Poets) 4.38 avg rating — 229 ratings
38.
Master Suffering
Master Suffering 3.78 avg rating — 49 ratings
39.
The Vault
The Vault 3.80 avg rating — 65 ratings
40.
Floaters: Poems
Floaters: Poems 4.40 avg rating — 613 ratings
41.
Sho
Sho 3.91 avg rating — 168 ratings
42.
On the Origin of Species and Other Stories
On the Origin of Species and Other Stories 4.32 avg rating — 837 ratings
43.
An Inventory of Losses
An Inventory of Losses 3.35 avg rating — 1,881 ratings
44.
Home Is Not a Country
Home Is Not a Country 4.20 avg rating — 5,129 ratings
45.
Too Bright to See
Too Bright to See 4.11 avg rating — 5,843 ratings
46.
Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People
Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People 4.44 avg rating — 818 ratings
47.
Me: Moth
Me: Moth 4.03 avg rating — 9,121 ratings
48.
The Mirror Season
The Mirror Season 4.03 avg rating — 6,514 ratings
49.
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre 4.48 avg rating — 4,172 ratings
50.
From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement
From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement
by: Paula Yoo
4.20 avg rating — 1,545 ratings