Mass Book Awards

FICTION LONGLIST
Nicked by M.T. Anderson (Pantheon)
The Naming Song by Jedediah Berry (Tor)
To & Fro by Leah Hager Cohen (Bellevue Literary Press)
The Bullet Swallower by Elizabeth Gonzalez James (Simon & Schuster)
The Lion Women of Tehran by Marjan Kamali (Gallery Books)
In the Garden of Monsters by Crystal King (Mira)
River East, River West by Aube Rey Lescure (William Morrow)
The Book of Love by Kelly Link (Random House)
The Road from Belhaven by Margot Livesey (Knopf)
Sandwich by Catherine Newman (Harper)
Remember You Will Die by Eden Robins (Sourcebooks)
Jackie by Dawn Tripp (Random House)

NONFICTION LONGLIST
The Education Wars: A Citizen's Guide and Defense Manual by Jennifer C. Berkshire and Jack Schneider (The New Press)
Freeman's Challenge: The Murder That Shook America's Original Prison for Profit by Robin Bernstein (University of Chicago Press)
What Works in Community News by Ellen Clegg and Dan Kennedy (Beacon Press)
Slow Wood: Greener Building from Local Forests by Brian Donahue (Yale University Press)
Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality & Students Pay the Price by Anthony Abraham Jack (Princeton University Press)
We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance by Kellie Carter Jackson (Seal Press / Hachette)
Exit Wounds: How America's Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border by Ieva Jusionyte (University of California Press)
H is for Hope: Climate Change from A to Z by Elizabeth Kolbert (Ten Speed Press)
The Stolen Wealth of Slavery: A Case for Reparations by David Montero (Legacy Lit / Hachette)
Women Behind the Wheel by Nancy A. Nichols (Pegasus Books)
Making it in America by Rachel Slade (Pantheon)
Magically Black and Other Essays by Jerald Walker (Amistad)

POETRY LONGLIST
Three-Day Weekend by Christopher Blackman (Gunpowder Press)
Wild Pack of the Living by Eileen Cleary (Nixes Mate Review)
The Sorrow Apartments by Andrea Cohen (Four Way Books)
kiss & release by Anthony Dipietro (Unsolicited Press)
Each Knuckle with Sugar by Sarah Levine (Driftwood Press)
We Are All Sleeping with Our Sneakers On by Matthew Lippman (Four Way Books)
Psychic Party Under the Bottle Tree by Jennifer Martelli (Lily Poetry Review)
Glitter Road by January Gill O'Neil (CavanKerry Press)
Proverbs of Limbo by Robert Pinsky (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Rupture by Adrie Rose (Gold Line Press)
Auguries & Divinations by Heather Treseler (Bauhan Publishing)
Matters for You Alone by Leslie Williams (Slant Books)

MIDDLE GRADE / YOUNG ADULT LONGLIST
Spells to Forget Us by Aislinn Brophy (G.P. Putnam’s Sons BYR)
Carter Avery's Tricky Fourth-Grade Year by Rob Buyea (Delacorte Press)
Better Must Come by Desmond Hall (Atheneum)
When We Flew Away by Alice Hoffman (Scholastic)
Sona and the Golden Beasts by Rajani LaRocca (Quill Tree Books)
Flyboy by Kasey LeBlanc (Quill Tree Books)
The Diablo's Curse by Gabe Cole Novoa (Random House BYR)
Inheritance of Scars by Crystal Seitz (Simon & Schuster)
One Last Chance to Live by Francisco X. Stork (Scholastic)
Kingdom of Dust by Lisa Stringfellow (Quill Tree Books)
Happy & Sad & Everything True by Alex Thayer (Aladdin)
Dead Things Are Closer Than They Appear by Robin Wasley (Simon & Schuster BYR)

PICTURE BOOK / EARLY READER LONGLIST
What's New Daniel by Micha Archer (Penguin Random House)
The Last Zookeeper by Aaron Becker (Candlewick)
ARTificial Intelligence by David Biedrzycki (Charlesbridge)
The Noisy Puddle by Linda Booth Sweeney. Miki Sato, illus. (Owlkids Books)
Miles Comes Home by Sarah S. Brannen. Forrest Burdett, illus. (Little Bee Books)
World of Rot by Britt Crow-Miller. Bruno Valasse, illus. (Storey Publishing)
Nothing: John Cage and 4'33" by Nicholas Day. Chris Raschka , illus. (Holiday House)
Night Song by Mk Smith Despres. Hyewon Yum, illus. (Enchanted Lion Books)
Springtime Storks: A Migration Love Story by Carol Joy Munro. Chelsea O'Byrne, illus. (Minerva)
Joyful Song: A Naming Story by Lesléa Newman. Susan Gal, illus. (Levine Querido)
Small Things Mended by Casey Robinson. Nancy Whitesides, illus. (Rocky Pond Books)
Is a Book a Box for Words? by Harriet Ziefert. Mercè Galí, illus. (Red Comet Press)