2015 National Book Awards Fiction Longlist
As part of its weeklong rollout of this year's finalists, today the National Book Foundation released the 2015 longlist for the National Book Award for Fiction. Literary agent Bill Clegg, Lauren Groff, Pulitzer Prize winner Adam Johnson, and Hanya Yanagihara are all in contention.
The finalists will be announced on October 14, and the winners will be revealed on November 18.
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
Soft Skull/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