Joyce Carol Oates Prize Nominees and Winners - hosted by kelly_virginia

2024 Longlist

2024 JCO Prize Longlisted Authors & Most Recent Book of Fiction

Gina Apostol, La Tercera, Soho

Clare Beams, The Garden, Doubleday

Jamel Brinkley, Witness, FSG

Rachel Cantor, Half-Life of a Stolen Sister, Soho

Alexandra Chang, Tomb Sweeping, Ecco

Emma Cline, The Guest, Random House

Teju Cole, Tremor, Random House

Charmaine Craig, My Nemesis, Grove Atlantic

Patricia Engel, The Faraway World, Avid Reader

Jonathan Evison, Again and Again, Dutton

Ben Fountain, Devil Makes Three, Flatiron

Rachel Heng, The Great Reclamation, Riverhead

Brandon Hobson, The Removed, Ecco

Caitlin Horrocks, The Vexations, Little, Brown

Sadeqa Johnson, The House of Eve, Simon & Schuster

Daphne Kalotay, The Archivists, Triquarterly Books

Lydia Kiesling, Mobility, Crooked Media Reads

Edan Lepucki, Time’s Mouth, Counterpoint

Kathryn Ma, The Chinese Groove, Counterpoint

Idra Novey, Take What You Need, Viking

Téa Obreht, The Morningside, Random House

Mary Otis, Burst, Zibby Books

Kevin Powers, A Line in the Sand, Little, Brown

Jess Row, The New Earth, Ecco

Julie Shumacher, The English Experience, Doubleday

Bennett Sims, Other Minds and Other Stories, Two Dollar Radio

Jessica Treadway, Infinite Dimensions, Delphinium

Vauhini Vara, This Is Salvaged, W.W. Norton

Bryan Washington, Family Meal, Riverhead 

Paul Yoon, The Hive and the Honey, Marysue Rucci Books/Simon & Schuster

C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey, Riverhead

All books added
Infinite Country by Patricia Engel

Infinite Country

Patricia Engel

191 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction literary emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Tremor by Teju Cole

Tremor

Teju Cole

256 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction literary challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
The Guest by Emma Cline

The Guest

Emma Cline

304 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction contemporary thriller dark tense medium-paced
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