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The 2018 National Book Awards Longlist: Fiction

By The New Yorker September 14, 2018

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-...

The full list is below.

Jamel Brinkley, “A Lucky Man”
Graywolf Press

Jennifer Clement, “Gun Love”
Hogarth / Penguin Random House

Lauren Groff, “Florida”
Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House

Daniel Gumbiner, “The Boatbuilder”
McSweeney’s

Brandon Hobson, “Where the Dead Sit Talking”
Soho Press

*Tayari Jones, “An American Marriage”
Algonquin Books / Workman Publishing

Rebecca Makkai, “The Great Believers”
Viking Books / Penguin Random House

Sigrid Nunez, “The Friend”
Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House

*Tommy Orange, “There There”
Alfred A. Knopf / Penguin Random House

Nafissa Thompson-Spires, “Heads of the Colored People”
Atria Books / 37 INK / Simon & Schuster

The judges for the category this year are Laila Lalami, whose most recent book, “The Moor’s Account,” was a contender for both the Man Booker Prize and the Pulitzer Prize; Chris Bachelder, whose most recent book, “The Throwback Special,” was a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction; Min Jin Lee, whose novel “Pachinko” was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Award for Fiction; Laurie Muchnick, the fiction editor at Kirkus Reviews; and Chinelo Okparanta, whose most recent book is “Under the Udala Trees,” which was a finalist for the International Dublin Literary Award.

* These two were already on my library wait list

I"ve heard enough good things about "There, There" to consider that one, too.

The National Book Award also has a Translated Literature category for the first time this year. I’m excited about that list!