Year-End Lists

National Book Award: Nonfiction 2015

Winner

• Between the World and Me
  Ta-Nehisi Coates

Finalists

• Hold Still

  A Memoir with Photographs
  Sally Mann
• The Soul of an Octopus

  A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness
  Sy Montgomery
• If the Oceans Were Ink

  An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran
  Carla Power
• Ordinary Light

  A Memoir
  Tracy K. Smith

Longlist

• Rain

  A Natural and Cultural History
  Cynthia Barnett
• Mourning Lincoln
  Martha Hodes
• Paradise of the Pacific

  Approaching Hawaii
  Susanna Moore
• Love and Other Ways of Dying

  Essays
  Michael Paterniti
• Travels in Vermeer

  A Memoir
  Michael White