National Book Award 2018 fiction longlist announced

Monday, 17 September 2018 Books+Publishing

In the US, the National Book Award fiction longlist has been announced.

The finalists in the fiction category are:

A Lucky Man (Jamel Brinkley, Graywolf Press)
Gun Love (Jennifer Clement, Hogarth)
Florida (Lauren Groff, William Heinemann)
The Boatbuilder (Daniel Gumbiner, McSweeney’s)
Where the Dead Sit Talking (Brandon Hobson, Soho Press)
An American Marriage (Tayari Jones, Vintage)
The Great Believers (Rebecca Makkai, Fleet)
The Friend (Sigrid Nunez, Riverhead)
There, There (Tommy Orange, Harvill Secker)
Heads of the Colored People (Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Chatto & Windus)

The fiction longlist was the final category to be announced, following the announcements of the longlists for nonfiction, poetry, translated literature, and young people’s literature. To see the full list of finalists, click here.

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