Joyce Carol Oates Prize Nominees and Winners - hosted by kelly_virginia

2018 Longlist
Jane Alison, Nine Island (Catapult)

Ramona Ausubel, Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty (Riverhead)

Whitney Burnett, The Good Lieutenant (Picador)

Bonnie Jo Campbell, Mothers, Tell Your Daughters (Norton)

Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (Ecco) 

Amina Gautier, The Loss of All Lost Things (Elixir Press)

Andrew Sean Greer, Less (Lee Boudreaux Books) [division of Little, Brown]

Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies (Riverhead)

Jennifer Haigh, Heat and Light (Ecco)

Greg Hrbek, Not on Fire, But Burning (Melville House)

Samantha Hunt, The Dark Dark (FSG) 

Louis B. Jones, Innocence (Counterpoint)

Paul LaFarge, The Night Ocean (Penguin)

Robert Lopez, Good People (Bellevue)

Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs (Penguin)

Elizabeth McKenzie, The Portable Veblen (Penguin)

Edie Meidav, Kingdom of the Young (Sarabande)

Maile Meloy, Do Not Become Alarmed (Riverhead)

Fiona Maazel, A Little More Human (Graywolf)

Rebecca Makkai, Music for Wartime (Penguin)

Ottessa Moshfegh, Homesick for Another World (Penguin)

Celeste Ng, Little Fires Everywhere (Penguin)

Dexter Palmer, Version Control (Vintage)

Hannah Pittard Listen to Me (Mariner)

Martin Pousson, Black Sheep Boy (Rare Bird) 

Eric Puchner, Last Day on Earth (Scribner)

Selah Saterstrom, Slab (Coffee House Press)

Michelle Richmond, The Marriage Pact (Bantam)

Patrick Ryan, The Dream Life of Astronauts (Dial)

Danzy Senna, New People (Riverhead)

Maggie Shipstead, Astonish Me (Vintage) 

Emma Straub, Modern Lovers (Riverhead)

J. Courtney Sullivan, Saints for All Occasions (Knopf)

Deb Olin Unferth, Wait Till You See Me Dance (Graywolf Press)

Kevin Wilson, Perfect Little World (Ecco) 
All books added
All Adults Here by Emma Straub

All Adults Here

Emma Straub

368 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction contemporary emotional lighthearted reflective slow-paced
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead

Great Circle

Maggie Shipstead

593 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction historical literary adventurous emotional reflective slow-paced
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

Everything I Never Told You

Celeste Ng

297 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

fiction historical literary mystery 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
Homesick for Another World by Ottessa Moshfegh

Homesick for Another World

Ottessa Moshfegh

304 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

fiction contemporary short stories dark funny medium-paced
I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai

I Have Some Questions for You

Rebecca Makkai

448 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary mystery thriller dark mysterious reflective medium-paced
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff

Fates and Furies

Lauren Groff

400 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

fiction literary dark 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
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