Sep 17 2015
The last of the National Book Award longlists was announced Thursday, with Hanya Yanagihara's Booker-shortlisted A Little Life joining the Booker-longlisted Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg, Edith Pearlman's short-story collection Honeydew (following up on the shortlisted collection Binocular Vision), Pulitzer winner Adam Johnson's story collection Fortune Smiles, and more.
The full list includes:
Jesse Ball, A Cure for Suicide (Pantheon Books)
Karen E. Bender, Refund: Stories (Soft Skull/Counterpoint Press)
Bill Clegg, Did You Ever Have a Family (Scout Press/Simon & Schuster)
Angela Flournoy, The Turner House (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies (Riverhead Books/Penguin Random House)
Adam Johnson, Fortune Smiles: Stories (Random House)
T. Geronimo Johnson, Welcome to Braggsville (William Morrow/ Harper Collins)
Edith Pearlman, Honeydew (Little Brown, Hachette Book Group)
Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life (Doubleday/ Penguin Random House)
Nell Zink, Mislaid (Ecco/Harper Collins)
The Flower Sisters
by Michelle Collins Anderson
From the new Fannie Flagg of the Ozarks, a richly-woven story of family, forgiveness, and reinvention.
The House on Biscayne Bay
by Chanel Cleeton
As death stalks a gothic mansion in Miami, the lives of two women intertwine as the past and present collide.
The Funeral Cryer by Wenyan Lu
Debut novelist Wenyan Lu brings us this witty yet profound story about one woman's midlife reawakening in contemporary rural China.
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