--- description: Selections have now been announced for all categories title: Here Is the Longlist for the 2015 National Book Award image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaf5bcb44600026ff/69886410f887dc5624e92683/edit-piefman-lauren-groff-bill-cleg-jesse-ball1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Books](/tag/books/) ## Books Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Here Is the Longlist for the 2015 National Book Award by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 17, 2015 3:28 PM CUT  Randomhouse; Simon Schuster; Hachette; Penguin/Random House; Photo illustration by Alex Thebez for TIME by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 17, 2015 3:28 PM CUT The longlist for the 2015 National Book Award in fiction was [published](http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-national-book-awards-longlist-fiction "undefined") on Thursday, completing this week’s round of announcements that also revealed selections in non-fiction, poetry and literature for young readers. The fiction list includes three story collections (_Refund_, _Fortune Smiles_, _Honeydew_) and two debut novels (_The Turner House_, _Did You Ever Have a Family_). Hanya Yanagihara continued her good week with a nod for _A Little Life_, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize on [Tuesday](http://time.com/4034604/2015-man-booker-prize-shortlist/ "undefined"). Another highly buzzed-about book, Ta-Nehisi Coates’ influential _Between the World and Me_, was longlisted in the non-fiction category. Here’s the complete longlist in all four categories: **Fiction:** * Jesse Ball, [_A Cure for Suicide_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/1101870125/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") * Karen E. Bender, [_Refund_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/1619024551/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") * Bill Clegg, [_Did You Ever Have a Family_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/1476798176/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") * Angela Flournoy, [_The Turner House_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0544303164/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") * Lauren Groff, [_Fates and Furies_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/1594634475/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") * Adam Johnson, [_Fortune Smiles_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0812997476/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") * T. Geronimo Johnson, [_Welcome to Braggsville_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0062302132/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") * Edith Pearlman, [_Honeydew_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0316297232/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") * Hanya Yanagihara, [_A Little Life_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0385539258/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") * Nell Zink, [_Mislaid_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0062364774/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") **Non-fiction:** * Cynthia Barnett, [_Rain_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0804137099/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") * Ta-Nehisi Coates, [_Between the World and Me_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0812993543/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") * Martha Hodes,[ _Mourning Lincoln_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/030019580X/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") * Sally Mann,[ _Hold Still_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0316247766/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") * Sy Montgomery, [_The Soul of an Octopus_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/1451697716/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") * Susanna Moore,[ _Paradise of the Pacific_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0374298777/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") * Michael Paterniti, [_Love and Other Ways of Dying_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0385337027/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") * Carla Power, [_If the Oceans Were Ink_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0805098194/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") * Tracy K. Smith, [_Ordinary Light_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0307962660/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") * Michael White, [_Travels in Vermeer_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0892554371/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") **Poetry:** * Ross Gay, [_Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0822963310/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") * Amy Gerstler, [_Scattered at Sea_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/014312689X/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") * Marilyn Hacker, [_A Stranger’s Mirror_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0393244644/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") * Terrance Hayes, [_How to Be Drawn_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0143126881/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") * Jane Hirshfield, [_The Beauty_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0385351070/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") * Robin Coste Lewis, [_Voyage of the Sable Venus_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/1101875437/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") * Ada Limón, [_Bright Dead Things_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/1571314717/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") * Patrick Phillips, [_Elegy for a Broken Machine_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0385353758/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") * Rowan Ricardo Phillips, [_Heaven_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0374168520/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") * Lawrence Raab, [_Mistaking Each Other for Ghosts_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/1936797658/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") **Young people’s literature:** * Becky Albertalli, [_Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0062348671/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") * M.T. Anderson, [_Symphony for the City of the Dead_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0763668184/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") * Ali Benjamin, [_The Thing About Jellyfish_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0316380865/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") * Rae Carson, [_Walk on Earth a Stranger_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0062242911/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") * Gary Paulsen, [_This Side of Wild_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/1481451502/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") * Laura Ruby, [_Bone Gap_ ](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0062317601/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") * Ilyasah Shabazz, with Kekla Magoon, [_X: A Novel_ ](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0763669679/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") * Steve Sheinkin, [_Most Dangerous_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/1596439521/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") * Neal Shusterman,[ _Challenger Deep_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0061134112/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") * Noelle Stevenson, [_Nimona_](http://www.amazon.com/dp/0062278231/?tag=timecom-20 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4038406/2015-national-book-award-longlist/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4038406/2015-national-book-award-longlist/"},"headline":"Here Is the Longlist for the 2015 National Book Award","datePublished":"2015-09-17T15:28:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T11:01:48.629Z","description":"Selections have now been announced for all categories","url":"https://time.com/4038406/2015-national-book-award-longlist/","keywords":["Books"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaf5bcb44600026ff/69886410f887dc5624e92683/edit-piefman-lauren-groff-bill-cleg-jesse-ball1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltaf5bcb44600026ff/69886410f887dc5624e92683/edit-piefman-lauren-groff-bill-cleg-jesse-ball1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"edit-piefman-lauren-groff-bill-cleg-jesse-ball","caption":"edit-piefman-lauren-groff-bill-cleg-jesse-ball","creditText":"Randomhouse; Simon Schuster; Hachette; Penguin/Random House; Photo illustration by Alex Thebez for TIME","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/books/","name":"Books"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4038406/2015-national-book-award-longlist/","name":"Here Is the Longlist for the 2015 National Book Award"}}]}] ```