2018 National Book Awards
Fiction Longlist

Jamel Brinkley, A Lucky Man
(Graywolf Press)

Jennifer Clement, Gun Love
(Hogarth / Penguin Random House)

Lauren Groff, Florida
(Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House)

Daniel Gumbiner, The Boatbuilder
(McSweeney’s)

Brandon Hobson, Where the Dead Sit Talking
(Soho Press)

Tayari Jones, An American Marriage
(Algonquin Books / Workman Publishing)

Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers
(Viking Books / Penguin Random House)

Sigrid Nunez, The Friend
(Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House)

Tommy Orange, There There
(Alfred A. Knopf / Penguin Random House)

Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Heads of the Colored People
(Atria Books / 37 INK / Simon & Schuster)

Check out all of the lists at the National Book Foundation’s web site..