GrubStreet is thrilled to celebrate nine incredible Grubbies whose books were longlisted for the 2026 Mass Book Awards! Congratulations to these talented writers for this well-deserved recognition and for continuing to shape the literary landscape with their powerful work. We’re so proud to be part of your writing journeys and can’t wait to see what comes next!

Fiction Longlist

• Rabbit Moon by Jennifer Haigh (Little, Brown & Company)
• The Road to Tender Hearts by Annie Hartnett (Ballantine Books)
• The Lilac People by Milo Todd (Counterpoint)

Nonfiction Longlist

• The Hard Work of Hope by Michael Ansara (Cornell Univ. Press)
• We the People by Jill Lepore (Liveright / W.W. Norton)
• Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless by Maria Pinto (UNC Press)

Poetry Longlist

• Preverbal by Carroll Beauvais (Lit Fox Books)

Middle Grade/Young Adult Longlist

• Top Heavy by Rhonda DeChambeau (Holiday House)
• 13 Ways to Say Goodbye by Kate Fussner (HarperCollins)

You can read the entire 2026 Mass Book Award Longlist here.