2015 National Book Awards Fiction Longlist

As part of its weeklong rollout of this year's finalists, today the National Book Foundation released the 2015 longlist for the National Book Award for Fiction. Literary agent Bill Clegg, Lauren Groff, Pulitzer Prize winner Adam Johnson, and Hanya Yanagihara are all in contention. 

The finalists will be announced on October 14, and the winners will be revealed on November 18. 

2015 Longlist for the National Book Award for Fiction:

Jesse Ball, A Cure for Suicide

Pantheon Books/Penguin Random House

 

Bill Clegg, Did You Ever Have a Family

Scout Press/Simon & Schuster

 

Karen E. Bender, Refund

Soft Skull/Counterpoint Press

 

Angela Flournoy, The Turner House

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

 

Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies

Riverhead Books/Penguin Random House

 

Adam Johnson, Fortune Smiles

Random House/Penguin Random House

 

T. Geronimo Johnson, Welcome to Braggsville

William Morrow/HarperCollins

 

Edith Pearlman, Honeydew

Little, Brown/Hachette Book Group

 

Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

Doubleday/Penguin Random House

 

Nell Zink, Mislaid

The Ecco Press/HarperCollins

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