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Make room on The Ages of Lulu (1990)your "to-be-read" list—National Book Awards season is here!

This week, the National Book Foundation is announcing the books longlisted for the 2017 National Book Awards.

The National Book Awards is an annual celebration of the best and brightest in American literature. Each year, the National Book Awards honors four literary categories: Young People's Literature, Poetry, Nonfiction, and Fiction.

Past winners have included Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad (2016 Fiction winner), Congressman John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell's March: Book Three(2016 Young People's Literature winner), Ta-Nehisi Coates' letter to his son Between The World And Me(2015 Nonfiction winner), and Robin Coste Lewis' Voyage of the Sable Venus (2015 poetry winner).

One notable addition to this year's longlist is Angie Thomas' Black Lives Matter-inspired YA novel, The Hate U Give. The book follows a young teen named Starr Carter who witnesses her unarmed friend Khalil get shot and killed by a police officer during a traffic stop. The book has been a mainstay on the New York Times Best Sellers list, and MashReads called The Hate U Givethe one book you should read this year."

The National Book Foundation will be announcing one category from its longlist each day this week: Young People's Literature on Tuesday, Sept. 12; Poetry on Wednesday, Sept. 13; Nonfiction on Thursday, Sept. 14; and Fiction on Friday, Sept. 15. We'll be updating this post each day with each new announced category.

The finalists for the 2017 National Book Awards will be announced on October 4, and the winners of the 2017 National Book Awards will be revealed on November 15.

In the meantime, check out the longlisted books below.

Young People's Literature

What Girls Are Made Ofby Elana K. Arnold

Far from the Treeby Robin Benway

All the Wind in the World by Samantha Mabry

You Bring the Distant Nearby Mitali Perkins

Long Way Downby Jason Reynolds

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sánchez

Orphan Islandby Laurel Snyder

The Hate U Giveby Angie Thomas

Clayton Byrd Goes Undergroundby Rita Williams-Garcia

American Streetby Ibi Zoboi

Poetry

Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016by Frank Bidart

When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilitiesby Chen Chen

The Book of Endingsby Leslie Harrison

Magdalene: Poemsby Marie Howe

Where Now: New and Selected Poemsby Laura Kasischke

WHEREASby Layli Long Soldier

In Language of My Captorby Shane McCrae

Square Inch Hoursby Sherod Santos

Don't Call Us Dead: Poemsby Danez Smith

Afterlandby Mai Der Vang

Nonfiction

Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judgeby Erica Armstrong Dunbar

The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape Americaby Frances FitzGerald

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman, Jr.

The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russiaby Masha Gessen

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBIby David Grann

No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Needby Naomi Klein

Democracy In Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for Americaby Nancy MacLean

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated Americaby Richard Rothstein

The Blood of Emmett Tillby Timothy B. Tyson

Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, And Fake Newsby Kevin Young

Fiction

Dark at the Crossingby Elliot Ackerman

The King Is Always Above The People: Storiesby Daniel Alarcón

Miss Burmaby Charmaine Craig

Manhattan Beachby Jennifer Egan

The Leaversby Lisa Ko

Pachinkoby Min Jin Lee

Her Body and Other Parties: Storiesby Carmen Maria Machado

A Kind of Freedomby Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

Sing, Unburied, Singby Jesmyn Ward

Barren Islandby Carol Zoref