Year-End Lists

National Book Award: Nonfiction 2025

Winner

• One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
  Omar El Akkad

Finalists

• Motherland

  A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
  Julia Ioffe
• Things in Nature Merely Grow
  Yiyun Li
• Wards of the State

  The Long Shadow of American Foster Care
  Claudia Rowe
• When It All Burns

  Fighting Fire in a Transformed World
  Jordan Thomas

Longlist

• Black Moses

  A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State
  Caleb Gayle
• For the Sun After Long Nights

  The Story of Iran's Women-Led Uprising
  Fatemeh Jamalpour & Nilo Tabrizy
• The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam
  Lana Lin
• Run the Song

  Writing About Running About Listening
  Ben Ratliff
• The Salt Stones

  Seasons of a Shepherd's Life
  Helen Whybrow