Joyce Carol Oates Prize Nominees and Winners - hosted by kelly_virginia

2019 Longlist
Tom Barbash, Dakota Winters, Ecco

Marie Benedict, Carnegie’s Maid, Sourcebooks

Liam Callanan, Paris by the Book, Dutton

Susan Choi, My Education, Penguin

Charmaine Craig, Miss Burma, Grove

Patrick deWitt, French Exit, Ecco

Leif Enger, Virgil Wander, Grove

Jonathan Evison, Lawn Boy, Algonquin

David Francis, Wedding Bush Road, Counterpoint

Kim Fu, The Lost Girls of Camp Forevermore, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

David Burr Gerrard, The Epiphany Machine, Putnam

Lauren Groff, Florida, Riverhead

Dara Horn, Eternal Life, Norton

Silas House, Southernmost, Algonquin

Maria Hummel, Still Lives, Counterpoint

Laird Hunt, In the House in the Dark of the Woods, Little Brown

Mat Johnson, Loving Day, Spiegel & Grau

Tayari Jones, An American Marriage, Algonquin

Katie Kitamura, A Separation, Riverhead

 Rachel Kushner, The Mars Room, Scribner 

 Laila Lalami, The Moor’s Account, Vintage 

Ariel Lawhon, I Was Anastasia, Anchor

Chang-Rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea, Riverhead

Douglas Light, Where Night Stops, Rare Bird

Sam Lipsyte, Hark, Simon& Schuster

Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive, Knopf 

Ben Marcus, Notes from the Fog, Knopf

Lee Martin, The Mutual UFO Network, Dzanc

Daniel Mason, The Winter Soldier, Little Brown

Madeline Miller, Circe, Little Brown

Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere, Penguin

Idra Novey, Those Who Knew, Viking

Sigrid Nunez, The Friend, Riverhead 

Helen Phillips, Some Possible Solutions, Picador

Anne Raeff, Winter Kept Us Warm, Counterpoint 

Shoba Rao, Girls Burn Brighter, Flatiron

David Rocklin, The Night Language, Rare Bird

Jess Row, Your Face in Mine, Riverhead

Julie Schumacher, The Shakespeare Requirement, Doubleday

B. A. Shapiro, The Collector’s Apprentice, Algonquin

Tatjana Soli, The Removes, Sarah Crichton Books

Rene Steinke, Friendswood, Riverhead

 Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, Viking 

Laura van den Berg, The Third Hotel, FSG

Lidia Yuknavitch, The Book of Joan, Harper

Leni Zumas, Red Clocks, Little Brown
All books added
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu

Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

Kim Fu

220 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction fantasy magical realism short stories speculative fiction dark reflective medium-paced
Red Clocks by Leni Zumas

Red Clocks

Leni Zumas

356 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction dystopian challenging reflective medium-paced
The Third Hotel by Laura van den Berg

The Third Hotel

Laura van den Berg

224 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction horror literary magical realism mystery dark mysterious reflective slow-paced
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

A Gentleman in Moscow

Amor Towles

462 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

fiction historical literary emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
The Friend by Sigrid Nunez

The Friend

Sigrid Nunez

212 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

Little Fires Everywhere

Celeste Ng

338 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary emotional reflective medium-paced
On Such a Full Sea by Chang-rae Lee

On Such a Full Sea

Chang-rae Lee

352 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

fiction literary science fiction speculative fiction dark reflective slow-paced
Zorrie by Laird Hunt

Zorrie

Laird Hunt

176 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction historical literary emotional reflective slow-paced
Florida by Lauren Groff

Florida

Lauren Groff

275 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary short stories dark emotional reflective medium-paced
Trust Exercise by Susan Choi

Trust Exercise

Susan Choi

257 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary challenging dark reflective medium-paced