Joyce Carol Oates Prize Nominees and Winners - hosted by kelly_virginia

2017 - Longlist
Chris Adrian, The Great Night (Picador)

Chris Bachelder, The Throwback Special (Norton)

Tom Barbash, Stay Up With Me (Ecco)

Katie Crouch, Abroad (Sarah Crichton Books FSG)

Ron Currie, One-Eyed Man (Viking/Penguin)

Jennifer Dubois, The Cartwheel (Random House)

David Gilbert, & Sons (Random House)

Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone (Little, Brown)

Dara Horn, A Guide for the Perplexed (Norton)

Louis P. Jones, Radiance (Counterpoint)

Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers (Scribner)

Edie Meidav, Lola California (Picador)

C.E. Morgan, Sport of Kings (FSG)

Joshua Mohr, All This Life (Counterpoint/Soft Skull Press)

Naomi Munawera, What Lies Between Us (St Martin)

Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen (Penguin)

Peter Orner, Love and Shame and Love (Back Bay)

Lori Ostlund, After the Parade (Scribner) 

Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic (Anchor)

Elizabeth Rosner, Electric City (Counterpoint)

Keith Scribner, The Oregon Experiment (Vintage)

Dominic Smith, The Last Painting of Sara de Vos (Sarah Crichton FSG)

J. Courtney Sullivan, The Engagements (Vintage)

Vendela Vida, The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty (Ecco)

Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins (Harper)

Brad Watson, Miss Jane (Norton)

Teddy Wayne, The Loner (Simon & Schuster)

Allison Amend, Enchanted Islands (Nan A. Talese)

Emily Barton, The Book of Esther (Tim Duggan Books)

Matt Bell, A Tree, A Person, or a Wall (Soho)

Marc Bojanowski, The Dog Fighter (William Morrow)

Kevin Brockmeier, The Illumination (Vintage Contemporaries)

Alexander Chee, The Queen of the Night (Mariner Books)

Susan Choi, My Education (Penguin)

Teju Cole, Open City (Random House)

Elizabeth Crane, The History of Great Things (Harper Perennial)

Elizabeth Evans, As Good as Dead (Bloomsbury)

Brett Anthony Johnston, Remember Me Like This (Random House)

Jeffrey Lent, A Slant of Light (Bloomsbury)

Valeria Luiselli, The Story of My Teeth (Coffee House) 

Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven (Vintage)

Phillip Meyer, The Son (Ecco)

Ann Pancake, Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley (Counterpoint)

Donald Ray Pollock, The Heavenly Table (Doubleday)

Christine Sneed, Paris, He Said (Bloomsbury)

Dana Spiotta, Innocents and Others (Scribner) 

Mary Helen Stefaniak, The Cailiffs of Baghdad (Georgia (Norton)

Elizabeth Stuckey-French, The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady (Doubleday)
All books added
As Good as Dead by Elizabeth Evans

As Good as Dead

Elizabeth Evans

272 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

fiction literary reflective slow-paced
The History of Great Things by Elizabeth Crane

The History of Great Things

Elizabeth Crane

288 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

fiction contemporary emotional reflective slow-paced
Every Day Is for the Thief by Teju Cole

Every Day Is for the Thief

Teju Cole

128 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary challenging medium-paced
Open City by Teju Cole

Open City

Teju Cole

259 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

fiction contemporary reflective slow-paced
Trust Exercise by Susan Choi

Trust Exercise

Susan Choi

257 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary challenging dark reflective medium-paced
The Queen of the Night by Alexander Chee

The Queen of the Night

Alexander Chee

561 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

fiction historical mystery emotional mysterious slow-paced
The Illumination by Kevin Brockmeier

The Illumination

Kevin Brockmeier

272 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

fiction contemporary fantasy magical realism reflective slow-paced
The Dog Fighter by Marc Bojanowski

The Dog Fighter

Marc Bojanowski

304 pages • first pub 2004 (editions)

fiction crime dark tense medium-paced
A Tree or a Person or a Wall: Stories by Matt Bell

A Tree or a Person or a Wall: Stories

Matt Bell

400 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

fiction horror short stories dark reflective medium-paced
The Book of Esther by Emily Barton

The Book of Esther

Emily Barton

418 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

fiction historical speculative fiction challenging reflective slow-paced