The National Book Foundation has unveiled the longlist for fiction for the 2016 National Book Awards.
Finalists will be revealed on October 13 and winners will be revealed at the National Book Awards ceremony in New York on November 16th. Here is more from the press release:
The Fiction Longlist includes a former National Book Award Winner for Young People’s Literature and two titles by former National Book Award Finalists for Fiction. The list also includes three Pulitzer Prize finalists. One title is currently shortlisted for the 2016 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and another was recently selected for Oprah’s Book Club. There is one debut novel on the list.
We’ve got the entire list for you after the jump.
2016 National Book Awards Longlist for Fiction
Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Sweet Lamb of Heaven by Lydia Millet
What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell
Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie
Imagine Me Gone by Adam Haslett
The Throwback Special by Chris Bachelder
Miss Jane by Brad Watson
News of the World by Paulette Jiles
The Association of Small Bombs by Karan Mahajan