The longlist for the 2015 National Book Award nominees was released today and though there were a lot of familiar faces to be found (Clegg, Pearlman, Hanagihara) we were happy to see some surprises as well. Who could have predicted the appearance of Karen E. Bender’s Refund? Or the inclusion of Welcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo Johnson? Haven’t read them? Well here’s your chance. Reserve your own copies by clicking on the links and covers below:
- Jesse Ball, A Cure for Suicide (Pantheon Books)
- Karen E. Bender, Refund: Stories (Soft Skull/Counterpoint Press)
- Bill Clegg, Did You Ever Have a Family (Scout Press/Simon & Schuster)
- Angela Flournoy, The Turner House (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
- Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies (Riverhead Books/Penguin Random House)
- Adam Johnson, Fortune Smiles: Stories (Random House)
- T. Geronimo Johnson, Welcome to Braggsville (William Morrow/HarperCollins)
- Edith Pearlman, Honeydew (Little, Brown/Hachette Book Group)
- Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life (Doubleday/Penguin Random House)
- Nell Zink, Mislaid (Ecco/HarperCollins)
