2015 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS*

 

*Longlist, Fiction only.

The National Book Awards, established in 1950, are American literary prizes administered by the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization, that recognize the best Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature, published each year.

Read more about the National Book Awards and the National Book Foundation, which administers them, at this link: https://www.nationalbook.org/

 

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Fortune Smiles: Stories (Paperback)

By Adam Johnson
$17.00
ISBN: 9780812987232
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - October 4th, 2016

The National Book Award–winning story collection from the author of The Orphan Master’s Son offers something rare in fiction: a new way of looking at the world.

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Refund: Stories (Paperback)

By Karen E. Bender
$15.95
ISBN: 9781619026230
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Published: Counterpoint LLC - November 10th, 2015

A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST

We think about it every day, sometimes every hour: Money. Who has it. Who doesn't. How you get it. How you don't.

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The Turner House (Paperback)

By Angela Flournoy
$15.99
ISBN: 9780544705166
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Published: Mariner Books - March 1st, 2016

“Flournoy’s knockout debut is one of those books that should, by rights, be described as the Great American Novel.” — NPR
 
A New York Times Notable Book
 
Named a Best Book of the Year by
O, The Oprah Magazine * Entertainment Weekly * NPR * Essence * Men’s Journal *
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Fates and Furies: A Novel (Paperback)

By Lauren Groff
$17.00
ISBN: 9781594634482
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Published: Riverhead Books - September 13th, 2016

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
NPR MORNING EDITION BOOK CLUB PICK
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: THE WASHINGTON POST, NPR, TIME, THE SEATTLE TIMES, MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE, SLATE, LIBRARY JOURNAL, KIRKUS, AND MANY MORE

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A Little Life (Paperback)

By Hanya Yanagihara
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ISBN: 9780804172707
Availability: Backordered
Published: Anchor - January 26th, 2016

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR

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A Cure for Suicide: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries) (Paperback)

By Jesse Ball
$16.00
ISBN: 9781101872130
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Published: Vintage - June 14th, 2016

***LONG-LISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD***

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Did You Ever Have a Family (Paperback)

By Bill Clegg
$16.00
ISBN: 9781476798189
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Published: Gallery/Scout Press - May 17th, 2016

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD, MAN BOOKER PRIZE, PEN/ROBERT W.

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Welcome to Braggsville: A Novel (Paperback)

By T. Geronimo Johnson
$14.99
ISBN: 9780062302137
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Published: William Morrow Paperbacks - September 8th, 2015

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2015 BY THE WASHINGTON POST, TIME, MEN’S JOURNAL, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, KANSAS CITY STAR, BROOKLYN MAGAZINE, NPR, HUFFINGTON POST, THE DAILY BEAST, AND BUZZFEED

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Honeydew: Stories (Paperback)

By Edith Pearlman
$15.99
ISBN: 9780316297233
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Published: Back Bay Books - September 22nd, 2015

Over the past several decades, Edith Pearlman has staked her claim as one of the all-time great practitioners of the short story. Her incomparable vision, consummate skill, and bighearted spirit have earned her consistent comparisons to Anton Chekhov, John Updike, Alice Munro, Grace Paley, and Frank O'Connor.

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Mislaid: A Novel (Paperback)

By Nell Zink
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ISBN: 9780062364784
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Published: Ecco - January 26th, 2016

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2015 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

A sharply observed, mordantly funny, and startlingly original novel from an exciting, unconventional new voice—the author of the acclaimed The Wallcreeper—about the making and unmaking of the American family that lays bare all of our assumptions about race and racism, sexuality and desire.