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The longlist for 2025 National Book Award for Nonfiction have been announced. "Five finalists in each of the five categories—fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and young people's literature—will be named October 1. The winners will be announced during an awards ceremony in New York City on November 20." Below are the nonfiction nominees.
- One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad (Knopf) ebook
- Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State by Caleb Gayle (Riverhead)
- Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy by Julia Ioffe (Ecco)
- For the Sun After Long Nights: The Story of Iran's Women-Led Uprising by Fatemeh Jamalpour and Nilo Tabrizy (Pantheon)
- Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li (FSG)
- The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam by Lana Lin (Dorothy)
- Run the Song: Writing About Running About Listening by Ben Ratliff (Graywolf)
- When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World by Jordan Thomas (Riverhead)
- The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd's Life by Helen Whybrow (Milkweed) ebook