Year-End Lists

National Book Award: Nonfiction 2014

Winner

• Age of Ambition

  Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
  Evan Osnos

Finalists

• Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?

  A Memoir
  Roz Chast
• No Good Men Among the Living

  America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes
  Anand Gopal
• Tennessee Williams

  Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
  John Lahr
• The Meaning of Human Existence
  Edward O. Wilson

Longlist

• The Heathen School

  A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic
  John Demos
• The Mantle of Command

  FDR at War, 1941–1942
  Nigel Hamilton
• The Innovators

  How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
  Walter Isaacson
• When Paris Went Dark

  The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944
  Ronald C. Rosbottom
• Nature's God

  The Heretical Origins of the American Republic
  Matthew Stewart