Another day, another National Book Awards longlist! Today the NBA’s favorite works of nonfiction were announced, and boy is it a doozy of a list. Among the nominees for the final award is Naomi Klein, for her template for the resistance, No Is Not Enough, published by Chicago’s own Haymarket Books.
Klein is also known for her environmental writing, and in our April “Burning Worlds” column, Barbara Kingsolver named her one of her favorite authors on the subject.
Here’s the full list of nominees:
Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
Erica Armstrong Dunbar
Simon & Schuster
The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America
Frances FitzGerald
Simon & Schuster
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America
James Forman, Jr.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
Masha Gessen
Riverhead Books
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
David Grann
Doubleday
No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need
Naomi Klein
Haymarket Books
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America
Nancy MacLean
Viking
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Richard Rothstein
Liveright
The Blood of Emmett Till
Timothy B. Tyson
Simon & Schuster
Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News
Kevin Young
Graywolf Press
You can read more about the nominees over at the National Book Foundation’s website.
