The longlist for the 2015 National Book Award in fiction was published 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. 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
- Karen E. Bender, Refund
- Bill Clegg, Did You Ever Have a Family
- Angela Flournoy, The Turner House
- Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies
- Adam Johnson, Fortune Smiles
- T. Geronimo Johnson, Welcome to Braggsville
- Edith Pearlman, Honeydew
- Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
- Nell Zink, Mislaid
Non-fiction:
- Cynthia Barnett, Rain
- Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
- Martha Hodes, Mourning Lincoln
- Sally Mann, Hold Still
- Sy Montgomery, The Soul of an Octopus
- Susanna Moore, Paradise of the Pacific
- Michael Paterniti, Love and Other Ways of Dying
- Carla Power, If the Oceans Were Ink
- Tracy K. Smith, Ordinary Light
- Michael White, Travels in Vermeer
Poetry:
- Ross Gay, Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
- Amy Gerstler, Scattered at Sea
- Marilyn Hacker, A Stranger’s Mirror
- Terrance Hayes, How to Be Drawn
- Jane Hirshfield, The Beauty
- Robin Coste Lewis, Voyage of the Sable Venus
- Ada Limón, Bright Dead Things
- Patrick Phillips, Elegy for a Broken Machine
- Rowan Ricardo Phillips, Heaven
- Lawrence Raab, Mistaking Each Other for Ghosts
Young people’s literature:
- Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda
- M.T. Anderson, Symphony for the City of the Dead
- Ali Benjamin, The Thing About Jellyfish
- Rae Carson, Walk on Earth a Stranger
- Gary Paulsen, This Side of Wild
- Laura Ruby, Bone Gap
- Ilyasah Shabazz, with Kekla Magoon, X: A Novel
- Steve Sheinkin, Most Dangerous
- Neal Shusterman, Challenger Deep
- Noelle Stevenson, Nimona
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