Announced, the 2015 Longlist for the National Book Awards for Fiction

 
NEW YORK - Sept. 19, 2015 - PRLog -- The National Book Foundation announced the Longlist for the 2015 National Book Award for Fiction. Finalists will be revealed on October 14.

The Fiction Longlist includes a former National Book Award Finalist, a Pulitzer Prize winner, a two-time Pushcart Prize winner, and two titles that were included on the longlist of the 2015 Man Booker Prize. Of the ten books on the list, four are story collections, and many center on family relationships.

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,
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

For bios and book summaries, visit www.nationalbook.org.

Publishers submitted a total of 419 books for the 2015 National Book Award in Fiction. Five distinguished judges were given the charge of selecting what they deem to be the best books of the year. Their decisions are made independently of the National Book Foundation staff and Board of Directors; deliberations are strictly confidential. To be eligible for a 2015 National Book Award, a book must have been written by a US citizen and published in the United States between December 1, 2014 and November 30, 2015.

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