Member Awards and Achievements 2019 National Book Awards Longlists Announced September 24, 2019 Share on Twitter (opens in a new tab) on Facebook (opens in a new tab) on Linkedin (opens in a new tab) via email The National Book Awards longlists were announced last week. Carolyn Forché’s What You Have Heard is True: A Memoir of Witness and Resistance was nominated in the Nonfiction category, and Laurie Halse Anderson’s Shout was nominated in the Young People’s Literature category. For a complete list of longlisted nominees, visit the National Book Foundation’s website.