Year-End Lists

National Book Award: Nonfiction 2018

Winner

• The New Negro

  The Life of Alain Locke
  Jeffrey C. Stewart

Finalists

• The Indian World of George Washington

  The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation
  Colin G. Calloway
• American Eden

  David Hosack, Botany and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic
  Victoria Johnson
• Heartland

  A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
  Sarah Smarsh
• We the Corporations

  How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights
  Adam Winkler

Longlist

• One Person, No Vote

  How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
  Carol Anderson
• Directorate S

  The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
  Steve Coll
• Brothers of the Gun

  A Memoir of the Syrian War
  Marwan Hisham and Molly Crabapple
• The Tangled Tree

  A Radical New History of Life
  David Quammen
• Call Them by Their True Names

  American Crises (and Essays)
  Rebecca Solnit