2021 Longlist

Rumaan Alam, Leave the World Behind (Ecco)

Chloe Benjamin, The Immortalists (Putnam)

Britt Bennett, Vanishing Half (Riverhead)

Marie-Helene Bertino, Parakeet (FSG)

Blake Butler, Alice Knott (Riverhead)

Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Likes (FSG)

Leesa Cross-Smith, So We Can Glow (Grand Central)

Percival Everett, Telephone (Graywolf)

Garth Greenwell, Cleanness (FSG)

Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom (Knopf)

Debra Jo Immergut, You Again (Ecco)

Andrew Krivak, The Bear (Bellevue)

Catherine Lacey, Pew (FSG)

Norman Lock, American Follies (Bellevue)

Micheline Aharonian Marcom, The New American (Simon & Schuster)

Courtney Maum, Touch (Putnam)

Ander Monson, The Gnome Stories (Greywolf)

Tea Obreht, Inland (Random House)

Jenny Offill, Weather (Knopf)

Ivy Pochoda, These Women (Ecco)

Darin Strauss, The Queen of Tuesday (Random House)

Lysley Tenorio, The Son of Good Fortune (Ecco)

Héctor Tobar, The Last Great Road Bum (MCD/FSG)

Jessica Treadway, The Gretchen Question (Delphinium)

Laura Van Den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears (FSG)

Jacqueline Woodson, Red at the Bone (Riverhead)

Lidia Yuknavitch, Verge (Riverhead)

Laura Zigman, Separation Anxiety (Ecco)

268 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced

268 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced

352 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction historical literary emotional reflective medium-paced

352 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction historical literary emotional reflective medium-paced

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