2015 National Book Awards Longlist

The National Book Foundation announced the longlist of nominees for the 2015 National Book Awards, which celebrate the best of American literature. The National Book Award finalists will be announced on October 14 and the winners will be announced on November 18.

The National Book Foundation announced the longlist of nominees for the 2015 National Book Awards, which celebrate the best of American literature. The National Book Award finalists will be announced on October 14 and the winners will be announced on November 18.

FICTION

A Cure for Suicide by Jesse Ball

Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg

Refund by Karen E. Bender

The Turner House by Angela Flournoy (eBook)

Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff (CD book)

Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson

Welcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo Johnson

Honeydew by Edith Pearlman

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (eBook)

Mislaid by Nell Zink

NONFICTION

Rain: A Natural and Cultural History by Cynthia Barnett

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (eBook)

Mourning Lincoln by Martha Hodes

Hold Still by Sally Mann

The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery

Paradise of the Pacific by Susanna Moore

Love and Other Ways of Dying: Essays by Michael Paterniti

If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran by Carla Power

Ordinary Light by Tracy K. Smith (eBook)

Travels in Vermeer: A Memoir by Michael White