The National Book Foundation has revealed its Longlist for the 2014 National Book Award for Nonfiction for the National Book Award (NBA).
Below, we’ve collected free samples of all the books on the longlist for your reading pleasure. The finalists will be announced on October 15. Here’s more from the release:
The Fiction Longlist includes one book by a National Book Award Winner, two by former National Book Award Finalists, one by a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 author, two by Pulitzer Prize Winners, and one by an author best-known as the lyricist and musician for the band The Mountain Goats. The backdrop of war and imagined dystopia is a focus of five of the ten. Three are collections of short stories, two of which are by first-time authors.
2014 Longlist for Fiction:
Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman
Grove Press/ Grove/Atlantic
Molly Antopol, The UnAmericans
W. W. Norton & Company
John Darnielle, Wolf in White Van
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
Scribner/ Simon & Schuster
Phil Klay, Redeployment
The Penguin Press/ Penguin Group (USA)
Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven
Alfred A. Knopf/ Random House)
Elizabeth McCracken, Thunderstruck & Other Stories
The Dial Press/ Random House
Richard Powers, Orfeo
W.W. Norton & Company
Marilynne Robinson, Lila
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Jane Smiley, Some Luck
Alfred A. Knopf/ Random House