This week the National Book Foundation is releasing longlists for the 2023 National Book Awards. Finalists will be announced October 3, and winners named November 15 at the National Book Awards Ceremony. This year's longlisted titles in the Young People's Literature and Translated Literature categories are:
Young people's literature
Simon Sort of Says by Erin Bow (Disney-Hyperion Books)
Gather by Kenneth M. Cadow (Candlewick Press)
Forget Me Not by Alyson Derrick (S&S Books for Young Readers)
Huda F Cares? by Huda Fahmy (Dial Books for Young Readers)
Big by Vashti Harrison (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine by Katherine Marsh (Roaring Brook Press)
Hidden Systems: Water, Electricity, the Internet, and the Secrets Behind the Systems We Use Every Day by Dan Nott (Random House Graphic)
A First Time for Everything by Dan Santat (First Second/Macmillan)
Parachute Kids by Betty C. Tang (Graphix/Scholastic)
More Than a Dream: The Radical March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom by Yohuru Williams & Michael G. Long (Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers)
Translated literature
The Devil of the Provinces by Juan Cárdenas, translated from the Spanish by Lizzie Davis (Coffee House Press)
Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung, translated from the Korean by Anton Hur (Algonquin Books)
Beyond the Door of No Return by David Diop, translated from the French by Sam Taylor (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann (New Directions)
The Words That Remain by Stênio Gardel, translated from the Portuguese by Bruna Dantas Lobato (New Vessel Press)
No One Prayed Over Their Graves by Khaled Khalifa, translated from the Arabic by Leri Price (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
This Is Not Miami by Fernanda Melchor, translated from the Spanish by Sophie Hughes (New Directions)
Abyss by Pilar Quintana, translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman (World Editions)
On a Woman's Madness by Astrid Roemer, translated from the Dutch by Lucy Scott (Two Lines Press)
The Most Secret Memory of Men by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud (Other Press)