National Book Awards, Fiction Longlist
The National Book Awards today announces the final of the four longlists, the fiction nominees.
Four of the titles are LibraryReads picks and six are IndieNext picks (updated from earlier story; which didn’t include the IndieNext picks for October).
As on the nonfiction list, independent presses make a good showing, with three of the ten titles; one from Grove Atlantic and two from W.W. Norton (the latter had three titles on the nonfiction lists).
There’s little crossover with the Man Booker Award. Of the four Americans on that longlist, only one appears on this one, Richard Powers, Orfeo (Norton), which did not make it to the shortlist.
Finalists will be announced on Oct. 15. Winners in all categories will be announced at a ceremony in New York on Nov. 19 hosted by Daniel Handler, (a.k.a. Lemony Snicket).
Links, in the list below, are to the National Book Award annotations.
Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman (Grove Atlantic/ Grove Press)
Molly Antopol, The UnAmericans (Norton); An IndieNext pick
John Darnielle, Wolf in White Van (Macmillan/ FSG); published this week; An IndieNext pick
Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See (S&S/Scribner) — Both a LibraryReads and an an IndieNext pick
Phil Klay, Redeployment (Penguin Press)
Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven (RH/Knopf) — LibraryReads pick
Elizabeth McCracken, Thunderstruck & Other Stories (RH/Dial)
Richard Powers, Orfeo (Norton) — Both a LibraryReads and an an IndieNext pick
Marilynne Robinson, Lila (Macmillan/FSG) — IndieNext pick
Jane Smiley, Some Luck (RH/Knopf) — LibraryReads & IndieNext picks — to be published, 10/7/14