Free Samples of NBA’s Nonfiction Longlist

By Dianna Dilworth 

nbaThe 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 Nonfiction Longlist includes the first cartoonist to be honored by the National Book Awards in the adult categories (three graphic novels have been Finalists in the Young People’s Literature category), a Pulitzer Prize Winner, and several distinguished historians.

2014 Longlist for Nonfiction:

Roz ChastCan’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?

Bloomsbury

John DemosThe Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic

Alfred A. Knopf/ Random House

Anand GopalNo Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes

Metropolitan Books/ Henry Holt and Company

Nigel HamiltonThe Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941 – 1942

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Walter IsaacsonThe Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

Simon & Schuster

John LahrTennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh

W.W. Norton & Company

Evan OsnosAge of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Ronald C. RosbottomWhen Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944

Little, Brown and Company/ Hachette Book Group

Matthew StewartNature’s God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic

W.W. Norton & Company

Edward O. WilsonThe Meaning of Human Existence

Liveright Publishing Corporation/ W.W. Norton & Company