National Book Foundation Announces Fiction Longlist

Sep 15, 2016

The National Book Foundation has announced the longlist for the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction. The finalists will be announced on October 13, and the winner at the National Book Awards ceremony in New York on November 16. The ten titles were selected from a pool of 387 submissions, and were selected by judges James English, Karen Joy Fowler, T. Geronimo Johnson, Julie Otsuka, and Jesmyn Ward.

The titles are:

  • Chris Bachelder, The Throwback Special (W. W. Norton & Company)
  • Garth Greenwell, What Belongs to You (Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan)
  • Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone (Little, Brown and Company / Hachette Book Group)
  • Paulette Jiles, News of the World (William Morrow / HarperCollins Publishers)
  • Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs (Viking Books / Penguin Random House)
  • Elizabeth McKenzie, The Portable Veblen (Penguin Press / Penguin Random House)
  • Lydia Millet, Sweet Lamb of Heaven (W. W. Norton & Company)
  • Brad Watson, Miss Jane (W. W. Norton & Company)
  • Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad (Doubleday / Penguin Random House)
  • Jacqueline Woodson, Another Brooklyn (Amistad / HarperCollins Publishers)

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