The National Book Foundation announced its Fiction longlist. Shortlists will be named on October 7.
Rabih Alameddine, The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) (Grove Atlantic)
Susan Choi, Flashlight (FSG)
Angela Flournoy, The Wilderness (Mariner)
Jonas Hassen Khemiri, The Sisters (FSG)
Megha Majumdar, A Guardian and a Thief (Knopf)
Kevin Moffett, Only Son (McSweeney’s)
Karen Russell, The Antidote (Knopf)
Ethan Rutherford, North Sun: Or, the Voyage of the Whaleship Esther (A Strange Object)
Bryan Washington, Palaver (FSG)
Joy Williams, The Pelican Child (Knopf)
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