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Here are the 2023 longlists.

2023 Fiction Longlist

Boulder by Eva Baltasar, translated by Julia Sanches
Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
All the Blood We Share by Camilla Bruce
The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean
If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery
Calling for a Blanket Dance by Oscar Hokeah
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
Biography of X by Catherine Lacey
When We Were Bright and Beautiful by Jillian Medoff
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
Symphony of Secrets by Brendan Slocumb
We Are a Haunting by Tyriek White

2023 Nonfiction Longlist

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency by Chen Chen
A Living Remedy: A Memoir by Nicole Chung
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe by Caroline Dodds Pennock
Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H
Muse Found in a Colonized Body by Yesenia Montilla
The New Yorkers: 31 Remarkable People, 400 Years, and the Untold Biography of the World’s Greatest City by Sam Roberts
Above Ground by Clint Smith
Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation by Linda Villarosa
Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life by Alice Wong
Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist by Jennifer Wright
From From: Poems by Monica Youn

Shortlist fiction:

Calling for a Blanket Dance Oscar Hokeah

Yellowface R.F. Kuang

Biography of X Catherine Lacey

Winners:

Fiction: Biography of X Catherine Lacey
Nonfiction: Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H

2024 Brooklyn Public Library Prize fiction longlist.

Between Two Moons by Aisha Abdel Gawad (Vintage)

Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (Knopf)

Mister, Mister by Guy Gunaratne (Pantheon)

The Golem of Brooklyn by Adam Mansbach Dean (One World)

Witness: Stories by Jamel Brinkley (FSG)

And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliott (Dutton)

Brooklyn Crime Novel by Jonathan Lethem (Ecco)

Shark Heart: A Love Story by Emily Habeck (Marysue Rucci Books)

James by Percival Everett (Doubleday)

Bellies by Nicola Dinan (Hanover Square Press)

nonfiction longlist

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer (Penguin Press)

What We Remember Will Be Saved: A Story of Refugees and the Things They Carry by Stephanie Saldaña (Broadleaf Books)

How to Say Babylon: A Memoir by Safiya Sinclair (37 Ink)

Postcards from the Underworld: Poems by Sinan Antoon (The University of Chicago Press)

There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraquib (Random House)

Black Folk: The Roots of the Black Working Class by Blair L.M. Kelley (Liveright)

Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against "The Apocalypse" by Emily Raboteau (Henry Holt & Company)

The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture by Courtney Thorsson (Columbia University Press)

Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal by Bettina L. Love (St. Martin's Press)