Year-End Lists

National Book Award: Nonfiction 2024

Winner

• Soldiers and Kings

  Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling
  Jason De León

Finalists

• Circle of Hope

  A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church
  Eliza Griswold
• Unshrinking

  How to Face Fatphobia
  Kate Manne
• Knife

  Meditations After an Attempted Murder
  Salman Rushdie
• Whiskey Tender

  A Memoir
  Deborah Jackson Taffa

Longlist

• There's Always This Year

  On Basketball and Ascension
  Hanif Abdurraqib
• Our Moon

  How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are
  Rebecca Boyle
• The War Below

  Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives
  Ernest Scheyder
• A Great Disorder

  National Myth and the Battle for America
  Richard Slotkin
• Magical/Realism

  Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders
  Vanessa Angélica Villarreal