Year-End Lists

National Book Award: Nonfiction 2020

Winner

• The Dead Are Arising

  The Life of Malcolm X
  Les Payne and Tamara Payne

Finalists

• Unworthy Republic

  The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
  Claudio Saunt
• My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
  Jenn Shapland
• The Undocumented Americans
  Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
• How to Make a Slave and Other Essays
  Jerald Walker

Longlist

• Is Rape a Crime?

  A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto
  Michelle Bowdler
• If Then

  How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future
  Jill Lepore
• Owls of the Eastern Ice

  A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl
  Jonathan C. Slaght
• Afropessimism
  Frank B. Wilderson III
• Caste

  The Origins of Our Discontents
  Isabel Wilkerson