Every year, we wait with bated breath for the National Book Awards to announce their longlist for the year’s best fiction titles. And FINALLY that day has come. We didn’t really get the chance to exhale, though, because we’re TOO EXCITED by the names on this list.
Among the nominees are Min Jin Lee, who we spoke with earlier this year, and Margaret Wilkerson Sexton, whose debut delighted one of our critics.
Here’s the full list:
Elliot Ackerman
Dark at the Crossing
Knopf
Daniel Alarcón
The King Is Always Above the People: Stories
Riverhead Books
Charmaine Craig
Miss Burma
Grove Press
Jennifer Egan
Manhattan Beach
Scribner
Lisa Ko
The Leavers
Algonquin Books
Min Jin Lee
Pachinko
Grand Central Publishing
Carmen Maria Machado
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
Graywolf Press
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
A Kind of Freedom
Counterpoint Press
Jesmyn Ward
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Scribner
Carol Zoref
Barren Island
New Issues Poetry & Prose
You can read more about the nominees over at the National Book Foundation’s website.
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