FATES AND FURIES, A LITTLE LIFE on NBA Fiction Longlist
Days after being shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life (RH/Doubleday) is one of ten titles on the National Book Awards Longlist for Fction released today. The other US author on the Booker shortlist, Anne Tyler, for A Spool of Blue Thread, however, is not on the NBA Longlist.
Also on the list is a LibraryReads pick that has received much fanfare in advance of its publication this week (see our “Titles to Know and Recommend, the Week of Sept. 14“), and was just announced as the next title in NPR’s Morning Edition Book Club, Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies (Penguin/Riverhead).
The shortlist will be announced October 15. The winners will be announced on Nov. 18.
Below is the list, with links to publisher information. All of the titles have been published (titles published between Dec. 1, 2104 through Nov. 30, 2015 are eligible).
The 2015 National Book Award for Fiction Longlist
Jesse Ball, A Cure for Suicide (RH/Pantheon Books)
Karen E. Bender, Refund: Stories (Counterpoint Press, dist. by Perseus/PGW)
Bill Clegg, Did You Ever Have a Family (S&S/Scout Press)
Angela Flournoy, The Turner House (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies (Penguin/Riverhead)
Adam Johnson, Fortune Smiles: Stories (Random House)
T. Geronimo Johnson, Welcome to Braggsville (HarperCollins/Morrow; pbk released this month)
Edith Pearlman, Honeydew (Hachette/Little, Brown; pbk arrives next week)
Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life (RH/Doubleday)
Nell Zink, Mislaid (HarperCollins/Ecco)