The 2015 National Book Award Fiction Longlist was unveiled this morning, with four Penguin Random House titles recognized as semi-finalists: Earlier this week, these Penguin Random House books were selected for their respective National Book Award Longlists. Nonfiction

• RAIN: A Natural and Cultural History  by Cynthia Barnett (Crown)
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (Spiegel & Grau; Penguin Random House Audio, narrated by the author)
• Love and Other Ways of Dying  by Michael Paterniti (The Dial Press)
• Ordinary Light: A Memoir  by Tracy K. Smith (Alfred A. Knopf)

Poetry

• Scattered at Sea by Amy Gerstler (Penguin Books)
• How to be Drawn by Terrance Hayes  (Penguin Books)
• The Beauty by Jane Hirshfield (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Voyage of the Sable Venus by Robin Coste Lewis  (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Elegy for a Broken Machine by Patrick Phillips (Alfred A. Knopf)

Head to nationalbook.org to browse all the finalists.