Mass Book Awards

Fiction Longlist
The Light of Seven Days by River Adams (Delphinium Books)

Rouge: A Novel by Mona Awad (Simon & Schuster / Marysue Rucci Books)

Relentless Melt by Jeremy P. Bushnell (Melville House)

The Last Beekeeper by Julie Carrick Dalton (Macmillan Publishers)

Scorched Grace by Margot Douaihy (Zando / Gillian Flynn Books)

Kantika: A Novel by Elizabeth Graver (Metropolitan Books)

Shark Heart: A Love Story by Emily Habeck (Simon & Schuster / Marysue Rucci Books)

The Archivists by Daphne Kalotay (Northwestern University Press)

Like the Appearance of Horses by Andrew Krivak (Bellevue Literary Press)

Muckross Abbey and Other Stories by Sabina Murray (Grove Atlantic)

Night Angels by Weina Dai Randel (Lake Union Publishing)

We Have Always Been Who We Are by Sofia T. Romero (Blackstone Publishing)

Nonfiction Longlist
He/She/They by Schuyler Bailar (Hachette Go)

Spoken Word: A Cultural History by Joshua Bennett (Vintage)

How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World by Deb Chachra (Riverhead Books)

Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury by Drew Gilpin Faust (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

An Unruled Body by Ani Gjika (Restless Books)

The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight by Andrew Leland (Penguin Press)

What’s Gotten Into You by Dan Levitt (HarperCollins)

Winter Solstice by Nina MacLaughlin (Black Sparrow Press)

Everyday Something Has Tried to Kill Me and Has Failed by Kim McLarin (lg Publishing)

Into the Amazon by Larry Rohter (W.W. Norton)

Chomsky & Me by Bev Boisseau Stohl (OR Books)

Master Slave Husband Wife by Ilyon Woo (37 Ink / Simon & Schuster)

Poetry Longlist
Navigating the Reach by Mary Buchinger (Salmon Poetry)

Gravity and Center by Henri Cole (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

The Diaspora Sonnets by Oliver de la Paz (W.W. Norton)

Ordinary Entanglement by Melissa Dickey (Cleveland State University Poetry Center)

Fierce Elegy by Peter Gizzi (Wesleyan University Press)

Shadow Act by Daniel Brock Johnson (McSweeney’s Publishing)

The Observable Universe by Hannah Larrabee (Lily Poetry Review)

Ghost :: Seeds by Sebastian Merrill (Texas Review Press)

Love is a Shore by Hilary Sallick (Lily Poetry Review)

American Scapegoat by Enzo Silon Surin (Black Lawrence Press)

This Far North by Jason Tandon (Black Lawrence Press)

The Mansions by Daniel Tobin (Four Way Books)

Middle Grade / Young Adult Longlist
All You Have to Do by Autumn Allen (Kokila / Penguin Young Readers)

Spin by Rebecca Caprara (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)

The Remarkable Rescue at Milkweed Meadow by Elaine Dimopoulos (Charlesbridge)

Pedro & Daniel by Federico Erebia (Levine Querido)

The Song of Us by Kate Fussner (Katherine Tegen Books / HarperCollins)

A Work in Progress by Jarrett Lerner (Aladdin / Simon & Schuster)

Chinese Menu by Grace Lin (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)

Squished by Megan Wagner Lloyd and Michelle Mee Nutter (Scholastic)

The Fall of Whit Rivera by Crystal Maldonado (Holiday House)

The Moonlit Vine by Elizabeth Santiago (Lee & Low Books)

I Am Not Alone by Francisco X. Stork (Scholastic)

Ghosts, Toast, and Other Hazards by Susan Tan (Roaring Book Press / Macmillan)

Picture Book / Early Reader Longlist
When Things Aren’t Going Right, Go Left by Marc Colagiovanni and Peter H. Reynolds (Scholastic)

If the Rivers Run Free by Andrea Debbink. Nicole Wong, illus. (Sleeping Bear Press)

A Very Cranky Book by Angela DiTerlizzi and Tony DiTerlizzi (Quill Tree Books / HarperCollins)

Night Owl Night by Susan Edwards Richmond. Maribel Lechuga, illus. (Charlesbridge Publishing)

Summer Is for Cousins by Rajani LaRocca. Abhi Alwar, illus. (Abrams Books)

Once Upon a Book by Grace Lin and Kate Messner (Little, Brown Books For Young Readers)

Homeland by Hannah Moushabeck. Reem Madooh, illus. (Chronicle Books)

Everything Possible by Fred Small. Alison Brown, illus. (Nosy Crow)

Mole Is Not Alone by Maya Tatsukawa (Henry Holt and Company)

Yoshi’s Big Swim by Mary Wagley Copp. Kaja Kajfež, illus. (Capstone Editions)

Food for the Future by Mia Wenjen. Robert Sae-Heng, illus. (Barefoot Books)

Nana and Me by Jane Yolen. Sejung Kim, illus. (Bushel & Peck Books)