The 2024 Nationwide Ebook Awards Longlist

This week, The New Yorker is saying the longlists for the 2024 Nationwide Ebook Awards, starting with Younger Folks’s Literature. Test again at 2 P.M. for the Translated Literature listing, and Thursday and Friday for the Poetry, Fiction, and Nonfiction lists. Join the Books & Fiction e-newsletter to obtain every 2024 longlist.

Younger Folks’s Literature

The titles on this yr’s longlist interweave tales of self-acceptance with explorations of broader points. The listing consists of two début younger grownup novels, one author who has been beforehand honored by the Nationwide Ebook Awards—Randy Ribay, the writer of “The whole lot We By no means Had”—and a outstanding 5 novels in verse.

Olivia A. Cole, “Ariel Crashes a Practice”
Labyrinth Street / Penguin Random Home

Violet Duncan, “Buffalo Dreamer”
Nancy Paulsen Books / Penguin Random Home

Margarita Engle, “Wild Dreamers”
Atheneum Books for Younger Readers / Simon & Schuster

Josh Galarza, “The Nice Cool Ranch Dorito within the Sky”
Henry Holt and Firm (BYR) / Macmillan Publishers

Erin Entrada Kelly, “The First State of Being”
Greenwillow Books / HarperCollins Publishers

Randy Ribay, “The whole lot We By no means Had”
Kokila / Penguin Random Home

Shifa Saltagi Safadi, “Kareem Between”
G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Younger Readers / Penguin Random Home

Angela Shanté, “The Unboxing of a Black Woman”
Web page Road Publishing

Ali Terese, “Free Interval”
Scholastic Press / Scholastic, Inc.

Alicia D. Williams, “Mid-Air”
Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books / Simon & Schuster

The judges for the class this yr are Rose Brock, the co-founder of the North Texas Teen Ebook Competition; Huda Fahmy, whose novel “Huda F Cares?” was a Nationwide Ebook Award Finalist in 2023; Leah Johnson, the writer of the novel “You Ought to See Me in a Crown” and the founding father of Loudmouth Books; Mike Jung, the writer of the novel “Geeks, Women, and Secret Identities”; and Brein Lopez, the final supervisor of Kids’s Ebook World in Los Angeles.