Year-End Lists

National Book Award: Nonfiction 2023

Winner

• The Rediscovery of America

  Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
  Ned Blackhawk

Finalists

• Liliana's Invincible Summer

  A Sister's Search for Justice
  Cristina Rivera Garza
• Ordinary Notes
  Christina Sharpe
• We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I

  A Palestinian Memoir
  Raja Shehadeh
• Fire Weather

  A True Story from a Hotter World
  John Vaillant

Longlist

• King

  A Life
  Jonathan Eig
• The Slip

  The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever
  Prudence Peiffer
• When Crack Was King

  A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
  Donovan X. Ramsey
• A Man of Two Faces

  a Memoir, a History, a Memorial
  Viet Thanh Nguyen
• I Saw Death Coming

  A History of Terror and Survival in the War Against Reconstruction
  Kidada E. Williams