Here is the Longlist for the 2018 National Book Award in Fiction
On this, the Nicest Year of the Awards
The National Book Foundation has announced the ten books contending for this year’s National Book Award in Fiction. The longlisted titles were chosen from a total of 368 books submitted to the foundation by publishers, and will be judged by a panel comprised of Chris Bachelder, Laila Lalami (Chair), Min Jin Lee, Laurie Muchnick, and Chinelo Okparanta. All of the National Book Award Finalists will be announced on October 10, and the winners will be announced on Wednesday, November 14th at the 2018 National Book Awards Ceremony and Benefit Dinner in New York City.
The full longlist:
Jamel Brinkley, A Lucky Man
Graywolf Press
(Read our interview with Brinkley here.)
Jennifer Clement, Gun Love
Hogarth / Penguin Random House
(Read an excerpt from Clement’s Widow Basquiat here.)
Lauren Groff, Florida
Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House
(Read our interview with Lauren Groff here, or learn about her favorite books here.)
Daniel Gumbiner, The Boatbuilder
McSweeney’s
(Read an excerpt from The Boatbuilder here.)
Brandon Hobson, Where the Dead Sit Talking
Soho Press
Tayari Jones, An American Marriage
Algonquin Books / Workman Publishing
(Read an excerpt from An American Marriage here.)
Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers
Viking Books / Penguin Random House
(Read Makkai on writing about the 1980s AIDS crisis in Chicago here.)
Sigrid Nunez, The Friend
Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House
(Read an excerpt of The Friend here.)
Tommy Orange, There There
Alfred A. Knopf / Penguin Random House
(Read Orange’s answers to the Lit Hub Questionnaire here.)
Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Heads of the Colored People
Atria Books / 37 INK / Simon & Schuster
(Read Thompson-Spires on race, empathy, and the ethics of satire here.)
