Year-End Lists

National Book Award: Nonfiction 2016

Winner

• Stamped from the Beginning

  The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
  Ibram X. Kendi

Finalists

• Strangers in Their Own Land

  Anger and Mourning on the American Right
  Arlie Russell Hochschild
• Nothing Ever Dies

  Vietnam and the Memory of War
  Viet Thanh Nguyen
• The Other Slavery

  The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
  Andrés Reséndez
• Blood in the Water

  The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
  Heather Ann Thompson

Longlist

• America's War for the Greater Middle East

  A Military History
  Andrew J. Bacevich
• The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice
  Patricia Bell-Scott
• Imbeciles

  The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck
  Adam Cohen
• Weapons of Math Destruction

  How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
  Cathy O’Neil
• The Slave's Cause

  A History of Abolition
  Manisha Sinha