2015 National Book Awards Longlist

1.
Bone Gap
Bone Gap 3.81 avg rating — 30,243 ratings
2.
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (Simonverse, #1)
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (Simonverse, #1) 4.14 avg rating — 462,558 ratings
3.
A Little Life
A Little Life 4.29 avg rating — 859,388 ratings
4.
Between the World and Me
Between the World and Me 4.40 avg rating — 357,444 ratings
5.
Fates and Furies
Fates and Furies 3.59 avg rating — 145,786 ratings
6.
Walk on Earth a Stranger (The Gold Seer Trilogy, #1)
Walk on Earth a Stranger (The Gold Seer Trilogy, #1) 3.93 avg rating — 19,094 ratings
7.
The Thing About Jellyfish
The Thing About Jellyfish 4.10 avg rating — 43,475 ratings
7.
Challenger Deep
Challenger Deep 4.14 avg rating — 33,497 ratings
9.
Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War
Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 4.19 avg rating — 6,085 ratings
10.
Did You Ever Have a Family
Did You Ever Have a Family 3.79 avg rating — 27,960 ratings
11.
Fortune Smiles
Fortune Smiles 4.02 avg rating — 11,011 ratings
12.
Love and Other Ways of Dying: Essays
Love and Other Ways of Dying: Essays 4.02 avg rating — 878 ratings
13.
Nimona
Nimona 4.18 avg rating — 181,675 ratings
14.
Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems
Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems 4.28 avg rating — 1,717 ratings
15.
X
X 3.88 avg rating — 3,570 ratings
16.
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History
Rain: A Natural and Cultural History 3.82 avg rating — 1,992 ratings
17.
Mourning Lincoln
Mourning Lincoln 3.69 avg rating — 235 ratings
17.
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness 3.94 avg rating — 57,061 ratings
19.
The Turner House
The Turner House 3.63 avg rating — 17,808 ratings
20.
Mislaid
Mislaid
by: Nell Zink
3.29 avg rating — 6,736 ratings
21.
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
by: Ross Gay
4.24 avg rating — 6,131 ratings
22.
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad 4.35 avg rating — 6,301 ratings
23.
Bright Dead Things
Bright Dead Things
by: Ada Limon
4.20 avg rating — 13,804 ratings
24.
Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs
Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs 4.07 avg rating — 8,087 ratings
24.
If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran
If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran 4.11 avg rating — 2,021 ratings
26.
Ordinary Light
Ordinary Light 3.94 avg rating — 2,026 ratings
27.
Refund
Refund 3.57 avg rating — 939 ratings
28.
This Side of Wild: Mutts, Mares, and Laughing Dinosaurs
This Side of Wild: Mutts, Mares, and Laughing Dinosaurs 3.83 avg rating — 954 ratings
29.
Scattered at Sea
Scattered at Sea 3.73 avg rating — 294 ratings
30.
A Stranger's Mirror: New and Selected Poems 1994–2014
A Stranger's Mirror: New and Selected Poems 1994–2014 3.66 avg rating — 50 ratings
31.
How to Be Drawn
How to Be Drawn 4.18 avg rating — 1,089 ratings
32.
The Beauty
The Beauty 3.86 avg rating — 874 ratings
33.
Elegy for a Broken Machine: Poems
Elegy for a Broken Machine: Poems 3.92 avg rating — 330 ratings
34.
Heaven
Heaven 3.57 avg rating — 138 ratings
35.
Mistaking Each Other for Ghosts
Mistaking Each Other for Ghosts 3.91 avg rating — 98 ratings
36.
Paradise of the Pacific: Approaching Hawaii
Paradise of the Pacific: Approaching Hawaii 3.31 avg rating — 374 ratings
37.
Travels in Vermeer: A Memoir
Travels in Vermeer: A Memoir 3.68 avg rating — 240 ratings
38.
A Cure for Suicide
A Cure for Suicide 3.50 avg rating — 2,164 ratings
39.
Welcome to Braggsville
Welcome to Braggsville 3.23 avg rating — 3,525 ratings
40.
Honeydew
Honeydew 3.62 avg rating — 1,789 ratings