The last of the National Book Award longlists was announced Thursday, with Hanya Yanagihara’s Booker-shortlisted A LITTLE LIFE joining the Booker-longlisted DID YOU EVER HAVE A FAMILY by Bill Clegg, Edith Pearlman’s short-story collection HONEYDEW (following up on the shortlisted collection BINOCULAR VISION), Pulitzer winner Adam Johnson’s story collection FORTUNE SMILES, and more. As will be noted elsewhere, the diverse list eschews both the conventional and commercial. The full list includes:
Jesse Ball, A Cure for Suicide (Pantheon)
Bill Clegg, Did You Ever Have a Family (Scout Press)
Karen E. Bender, Refund (Soft Skull)
Angela Flournoy, The Turner House (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies (Riverhead)
Adam Johnson, Fortune Smiles (Random House)
T. Geronimo Johnson, Welcome to Braggsville (William Morrow)
Edith Pearlman, Honeydew (Little, Brown)
Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life (Doubleday)
Nell Zink, Mislaid (Ecco)
In other awards news, nominees were named for one of Canada’s big nonfiction awards, the Hilary M. Weston Prize:
Tell It to the World: International Justice and the Secret Campaign to Hide Mass Murder in Kosovo, Eliott Behar
Kitten Clone: Inside Alcatel-Lucent, Douglas Coupland
Empire of Deception: From Chicago to Nova Scotia – The Incredible Story of a Master Swindler Who Seduced a City and Captivated a Nation, Dean Jobb
Cease: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Desire, Lynette Loeppky
Stalin’s Daughter, Rosemary Sullivan