James Hynes’ Next has won The Believer Book Award. Romey’s Order by Atsuro Riley has won the poetry award.
In addition, the list of Believer readers’ favorite books was also released. Below, we’ve linked to free samples of the Book Award shortlist.
Here’s more about Next from the magazine: “An often witty eulogy for sex, youth, Sigourney Weaver’s Alien-era biceps, and American notions of financial and physical security, Next is a work of intense nostalgia that never fails to comment upon the present as well as—in its final pages of split-second daring, and optimism, and heartbreak—the future.”
S P R A W L by Danielle Dutton (Siglio Press)
Orion You Came and You Took All My Marbles by Kira Henehan (Milkweed Editions)
Next by James Hynes (Reagan Arthur Books)
The Orange Eats Creeps by Grace Krilanovich (Two Dollar Radio)
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray (Faber & Faber)
Full Disclosure: This GalleyCat editor has written for The Believer in the past.