Joyce Carol Oates Prize Nominees and Winners - hosted by kelly_virginia

2022 Longlist

Megan Abbott, The Turnout, Putnam

Kristen Arnett, With Teeth, Riverhead

Christopher Beha, The Index of Self-destructive Acts, Tin House

Matt Bell, Appleseed, Custom House

Venita Blackburn, How to Wrestle a Girl, MCD

Amina Cain, Indelicacy, FSG

Dan Chaon, Sleepwalk, Henry Holt

Joshua Cohen, The Netanyahus, New York Review Books

Lucy Corin, The Swank Hotel, Graywolf

Katie Crouch, Embassy Wife, FSG

Louis Edwards, Ramadan Ramsey, Amistad

Percival Everett, The Trees, Graywolf

Jonathan Evison, Legends of the North Cascades, Algonquin

Rivka Galchen, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch, FSG

Kaitlyn Greenidge, Libertie, Algonquin

Lauren Groff, Matrix, Riverhead

Joshua Henken, Morningside Heights, Pantheon

Caitlin Horrocks, Life among the Terranauts, Little, Brown

Jessica Francis Kane, Rules for Visiting, Penguin Press

Katie Kitamura, Intimacies, Riverhead

Alexandra Kleeman, Something New Under the Sun, Hogarth

Shelia Kohler, Open Secrets, Penguin

Jean Hanff Korelitz, The Plot; Celadon

Zachary Lazar: Vengeance, Catapult

Jonathan Lethem, The Arrest, Ecco

Atticus Lish, The War for Gloria, Knopf

Jason Mott, Hell of a Book, Dutton

Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Viking

Kathleen Rooney, Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey, Penguin

Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle, Knopf

Joan Silber, Secrets of Happiness, Counterpoint

Dana Spiotta, Wayward, Knopf

Brandon Taylor, Filthy Animals, Riverhead

Laura van den Berg, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears, FSG

Vendela Vida, We Run the Tides, Ecco

Bryan Washington, Memorial, Riverhead

Tiphanie Yanique, Monster in the Middle, Riverhead
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Filthy Animals by Brandon Taylor

Filthy Animals

Brandon Taylor

288 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction contemporary lgbtqia+ literary short stories dark emotional reflective medium-paced
Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead

Great Circle

Maggie Shipstead

593 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction historical literary adventurous emotional reflective slow-paced
The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki

The Book of Form and Emptiness

Ruth Ozeki

548 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary magical realism emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem

Motherless Brooklyn

Jonathan Lethem

311 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

fiction crime mystery mysterious reflective medium-paced
The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem

The Fortress of Solitude

Jonathan Lethem

528 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

fiction contemporary reflective slow-paced
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