Over the past week, the National Book Foundation has released the names of contenders for the Young People’s Literature, Poetry, and Nonfiction National Book Awards. Today, the foundation posted its final list—the longlist for the Fiction Award.

Many of the contenders for fiction explore mental illness, slavery, terrorism, and war; they include Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad, Karan Mahajan’s The Association of Small Bombs, Adam Haslett’s Imagine Me Gone, Jacqueline Woodson’s Another Brooklyn, Elizabeth Kenzie’s The Portable Veblen, Chris Bachelder’s The Throwback Special, Garth Greenwell’s What Belongs to You, Paulette Jiles’s News of the World, Lydia Millet’s Sweet Lamb of Heaven, and Brad Watson’s Miss Jane.

Race and war also dominated the nonfiction and young people’s literature categories. The longlist for nonfiction includes Andrew J. Bacevich’s America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History; Patricia Bell-Scott’s The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice; Adam Cohen’s Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck; Arlie Russell Hochschild’s Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right; Ibram X. Kendi’s Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America; Viet Thanh Nguyen’s Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War; Cathy O’Neill’s Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy; Andrés Reséndez’s The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America; Manisha Sinha’s The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition; and Heather Ann Thompson’s Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and its Legacy.

Young people’s literature included Kwame Alexander’s Booked; Kate DiCamillo’s Raymie Nightingale; John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell’s March: Book Three; Grace Lin’s When the Sea Turned to Silver; Anna-Marie McLemore’s When the Moon Was Ours; Meg Medina’s Burn Baby Burn; Sara Pennypacker and Jon Klassen’s Pax; Jason Reynolds’s Ghost; Caren Stelson’s Sachiko: A Nagasaki Bomb Survivor’s Story; and Nicola Yoon’s The Sun Is Also a Star.

The longlist for poetry includes Daniel Borzutzky’s The Performance of Becoming Human, Rita Dove’s Collected Poems (1974–2004), Peter Gizzi’s Archeophonics, Donald Hall’s The Selected Poems of Donald Hall, Jay Hopler’s The Abridged History of Rainfall, Donika Kelly’s Bestiary, Jane Mead’s World Made and Unmade, Solmaz Sharif’s Look, Monica Youn’s Blackacre, and Kevin Young’s Blue Laws.

The foundation will announce the finalists for the awards on October 13.