Year-End Lists

National Book Award: Nonfiction 2021

Winner

• All That She Carried

  The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
  Tiya Miles

Finalists

• A Little Devil in America

  Notes in Praise of Black Performance
  Hanif Abdurraqib
• Running Out

  In Search of Water on the High Plains
  Lucas Bessire
• Tastes Like War

  A Memoir
  Grace M. Cho
• Covered with Night

  A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
  Nicole Eustace

Longlist

• The Ground Breaking

  An American City and Its Search for Justice
  Scott Ellsworth
• The Sum of Us

  What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
  Heather McGhee
• The Free World

  Art and Thought in the Cold War
  Louis Menand
• How the Word Is Passed

  A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
  Clint Smith
• The Black Civil War Soldier

  A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship
  Deborah Willis