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Starting this week PEN America is kicking off its literary award season by announcing the longlist for the 2017 PEN Literary Awards.

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Each year PEN uses its Literary Awards program to honor the best and brightest in fiction, science writing, essays, sports writing, biography, children’s literature, translation, drama and poetry. Past winners have included Ta-Nehisi Coates, who won the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay for Between The World and Mein 2016, and Paul Harding, who won the Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction for his novel Tinkersin 2010.

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This year, MashReads has partnered with PEN to announce the books longlisted for the 2017 PEN Literary Awards. From Dec. 5-9, we will be announcing new categories in PEN's longlist here on Mashable. Be sure to check back each day to see new nominations.

Award finalists will be announced by PEN on Jan. 18, 2017, and winners will be announced Feb. 22. (With the exception of the awards conferred for debut fiction and essay, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the PEN/Nabokov Award, which will be announced live at PEN's award ceremony). And finally, the winners will be celebrated on March 27 at the PEN America Literary Award ceremony hosted at the New School in New York City. 

Check out the longlisted books below.

PEN/ Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction

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Insurrectionsby Rion Amilcar Scott

We Show What We Have Learnedby Clare Beams

The Mothersby Brit Bennett

The Wangs vs. the Worldby Jade Chang

When Watched: Storiesby Leopoldine Core

Hideby Matthew Griffin

Homegoingby Yaa Gyasi

Tuesday Nights in 1980by Molly Prentiss

Hurt Peopleby Cote Smith

Wreck and Orderby Hannah Tennart-Moore

PEN/ E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award

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The Genius of Birdsby Jennifer Ackerman

What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousinsby Jonathan Balcombe

Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secretsby Luke Dittrich

Engineering Eden: The True Story of a Violent Death, A Trial, and the Fight over Controlling Natureby Jordan Fisher Smith

Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural Historyby Dan Flores

How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades, an Epic Race, and the Birth of a Private Spaceflightby Julian Guthrie

Lab Girlby Hope Jahren

The Gene: An Intimate Historyby Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Glass Universeby Dava Sobel

The Dragon Behind the Glass: A True Story of Power, Obsession, and the World's Most Coveted Fishby Emily Voigt

PEN Open Book Award

(for an exceptional book-length work of literature by an author of color published in 2016)

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Blackassby A. Igoni Barrett

Chronicle of a Last Summer: A Novel of Egypt by Yasmine El Rashidi

The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah

The Big Book of Exit Strategiesby Jamaal May

Behold the Dreamersby Imbolo Mbue

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yoursby Helen Oyeyemi

Lookby Solmaz Sharif

Problemsby Jade Sharma

Cannibalby Safiya Sinclair

Blackarceby Monica Youn

PEN/ ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing

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Boys Among Men: How the Prep-to-Pro Generation Redefine the NBA and Sparked a Basketball Revolutionby Jonathan Abrams

American Pharoah: The Untold Story of the Triple Crown Winner’s Legendary Riseby Joe Drape

The Last Innocents: The Collision of the Turbulent Sixties and the Los Angeles Dodgersby Michael Leahy

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Catching the Skyby Colten Moore with Keith O’Brien

Indentured: The Inside Story of the Rebellion Against the NCAAby Joe Nocera and Ben Strauss

Gunslinger: The Remarkable, Improbable, Iconic Life of Brett Favreby Jeff Pearlman

Playing Through the Whistle: Steel, Football, and an American Townby S.L. Price

Blood Brothers: The Fatal Friendship Between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm Xby Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith

Fastpitch: The Untold History of the Softball and the Women Who Made the Gameby Erica Westly

Black Gods of the Asphalt: Religion, Hip-Hop and Street Basketball by Onaje X.O. Woodbine

PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay

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The Art of Waiting: On Fertility, Medicine, and Motherhoodby Belle Boggs

Known and Strange Thingsby Teju Cole

Against Everythingby Mark Greif

A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and The Mindby Siri Hustvedt

The Girls in My Townby Angela Morales

Soul at the White Heatby Joyce Carol Oates

Becoming Earthby Eva Saulitis

Ethics in the Real Worldby Peter Singer

Far and Away: Reporting from the Brink of Changeby Andrew Solomon

Hungry Heartby Jennifer Weiner

PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography

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Jean Cocteau: A Lifeby Claude Arnaud, translated from the French by Lauren Elkin & Charlotte Mandell

A Loaded Gun: Emily Dickinson for the 21st Centuryby Jerome Charyn

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Lifeby Ruth Franklin

Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heartby Claire Harman

Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionaryby Joe Jackson

A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copleyby Jane Kamensky

Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographerby Arthur Lubow

Krazy: George Herriman, A Life in Black and Whiteby Michael Tisserand

American Luthier: The Art and Science of the Violinby Quincy Whitney

Louise Nevelsonby Laurie Wilson

PEN Translation Prize

(for literary prose)

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Confessionsby Rabee Jaber, translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid

The Fox Was Ever the Hunterby Herta Muller, translated from the German by Philip Boehm

Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Wasby Sjón, translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb

Between Life and Deathby Yoram Kaniuk, translated from the Hebrew by Barbara Harshav

One Hundred and Twenty-One Daysby Michèle Audin, translated from the French by Christiana Hills

Angel of Oblivionby Maja Haderlap, translated from the German by Tess Lewis

Justineby Iben Mondrup, translated from the Danish by Kerri A. Pierce

The Explosion Chroniclesby Yan Lianke, translated from the Chinese by Carlos Rojas

The Vegetarianby Han Kang, translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith

Limbo Beirutby Hilal Chouman, translated from the Arabic by Anna Ziajka Stanton

PEN Award for Poetry in Translation

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Pearl: A New Verse Translation, translated from the Middle English by Simon Armitage

Abyssby Ya Hsien, translated from the Chinese by John Balcom

Voronezh Notebooksby Osip Mandelstam, translated from the Russian by Andrew Davis

Building the Barricadeby Anna Swir, translated from the Polish by Piotr Florczyk

Algaraviasby Waly Salomao, translated from the Portuguese by Maryam Monalisa Gharavi

Preludes and Fuguesby Emmanuel Moses, translated from the French by Marilyn Hacker

Tale of Ise, translated from the Japanese by Peter MacMillan

In Praise of Defeat: Poemsby Abdellatif Laâbi, translated from the French by Donald Nicholson Smith

Absolute Solitude: Selected Poemsby Dulce Maria Loynaz, translated from the Spanish by James O’Connor

Twenty Girls to Envy Me: Selected Poems from Orit Gidali, translated from the Hebrew by Marcela Sulak

PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction

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Drinking in America: Our Secret Historyby Susan Cheever

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American Cityby Matthew Desmond

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in Americaby Nancy Isenberg

Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Helpby Larissa MacFarquhar

The Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in Americaby Patrick Phillips

Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemicby Sam Quinones

The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in Americaby Andrés Reséndez

The Train to the Crystal City: FDR’s Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America’s Only Family Internment Camp During World War IIby Jan Jarboe Russell

Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iranby Laura Secor

Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorshipby Anjan Sundaram

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