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2025 National Book Awards Longlist - Non-Fiction

Check out the non-fiction books on the longlist for the 2025 National Book Awards!

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  • An award-winning novelist and immigrant to the West, after reporting on the War on Terror, Black Lives Matter protests, and the slaughter in Gaza, concludes that much of what the West promises is a lie—that there will always be groups outside the…
    Book, 2025New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2025. — B EL AKKAD
  • Black Moses

    a Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State

    Gayle, Caleb,
    A powerful account of Edward McCabe’s bold attempt to establish a Black-governed state in Oklahoma, exploring how racism, political resistance and white greed ultimately derailed his vision of self-determination and opportunity for Black Americans…
    Book, 2025New York : Riverhead Books, 2025. — B MCCABE
  • Motherland

    a Feminist History of Modern Russia, From Revolution to Autocracy

    Ioffe, Julia,
    An acclaimed journalist tells the story of modern Russia through the history of its women, from revolution to utopia to autocracy.
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, c2025. — 305.40947 IOFFE
  • For the Sun After Long Nights

    the Story of Iran's Women-led Uprising

    Jamalpour, Fatemeh,
    A powerful account of Iran’s 2022 women-led uprising, told through the intertwined experiences of two journalists—one reporting from within the regime’s grasp, the other in exile—who document resistance, repression and the enduring fight for freedom.
    Book, 2025New York : Pantheon Books, ©2025. — 955.063 JAMALPOUR
  • Yiyun Li’s remarkable, defiant work of radical acceptance as she considers the loss of her son James.
    Book, 2025New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ©2025. — 362.283 LI
  • Wards of the State

    The Long Shadow of American Foster Care

    Rowe, Claudia
    A compelling exploration of the broken American foster care system, told through the stories of six former foster youth. This powerful narrative nonfiction book delves into the systemic failures that lead many foster children into the criminal…
    Book, 2025Harry N Abrams Inc 2025 — 361.0000
  • When It All Burns

    Fighting Fire in a Transformed World

    Thomas, Jordan (Anthropologist),
    In When It All Burns, wildland firefighter and anthropologist Jordan Thomas recounts a single, brutal six-month fire season with the Los Padres Hotshots—the special forces of America’s firefighters. Being a hotshot is among the most difficult jobs…
    Book, 2025New York : Riverhead Books, 2025. — 634.9618 THOMAS
  • Situated between memoir, social criticism, and conceptual art, The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam is an incisive response to a modernist classic and an affecting exploration of the poetics and politics of our times.
    Book, 2025[Saint Louis] : Dorothy, [2025] — 709.2000
  • Run the Song

    Writing About Running About Listening

    Ratliff, Ben,
    Out the front door, across the street, down the hill, and into Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. This is how Ben Ratliff's runs started most days of the week for about a decade. Sometimes listening to music, not always. Then, at the beginning of the…
    Book, 2025Minneapolis : Graywolf Press, 2025. — 780.9200
  • The Salt Stones

    Seasons of a Shepherd's Life

    Whybrow, Helen,
    Set in Vermont's Green Mountains, a profoundly moving meditation on the lessons and wisdom that come from raising a family, tending sheep, and living close to the land.
    Book, 2025Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, ©2025. — 636.301 WHYBROW