Sep 17 2014
The National Book Awards have announced their nonfiction longlist consisting of 10 titles:
Roz Chast, Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? (Bloomsbury)
John Demos, The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic (Knopf)
Anand Gopal, No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes (Metropolitan Books)
Nigel Hamilton, The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941 - 1942 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Walter Isaacson, The Innovators (Simon & Schuster)
John Lahr, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh (Norton)
Evan Osnos, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Ronald C. Rosbottom, When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944 (Little, Brown)
Matthew Stewart, Nature's God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic (Norton)
Edward O. Wilson, The Meaning of Human Existence (Norton)
The Flower Sisters
by Michelle Collins Anderson
From the new Fannie Flagg of the Ozarks, a richly-woven story of family, forgiveness, and reinvention.
The House on Biscayne Bay
by Chanel Cleeton
As death stalks a gothic mansion in Miami, the lives of two women intertwine as the past and present collide.
The Funeral Cryer by Wenyan Lu
Debut novelist Wenyan Lu brings us this witty yet profound story about one woman's midlife reawakening in contemporary rural China.
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