2024 National Book Award Nominees By Year. Just in time to fill your fall reading list, the national book awards, which celebrates the year's best writing, has announced its 2024 finalists in five categories—fiction, nonfiction,. Ten titles were placed in the longlist of each category in september.

Jason de león accepts the 2024 national book award for nonfiction for soldiers and kings. The judges are jamie ford, lauren groff (chair), zeyn joukhadar, chawa magaña, and.