September 13, 2024, 10:00am
Today, the National Book Foundation announced the longlist for the 2024 National Book Award for Fiction. The ten titles were selected from a pool of 473 books submitted for consideration by their publishers. This year’s judges for Fiction are Jamie Ford, Lauren Groff (Chair), Zeyn Joukhadar, Chawa Magaña, and Reginald McKnight.
The finalists will be announced on Tuesday, October 1, and the winners in all categories will be revealed at the National Book Awards Ceremony on November 20, 2024.
Here’s the 2024 Fiction longlist:
‘Pemi Aguda, Ghostroots
Norton / W. W. Norton & Company
Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!
Knopf / Penguin Random House
Jessica Anthony, The Most
Little, Brown and Company / Hachette Book Group
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, Catalina
One World / Penguin Random House
Percival Everett, James
Doubleday / Penguin Random House
Miranda July, All Fours
Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House
Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
Scribner / Simon & Schuster
Hisham Matar, My Friends
Random House / Penguin Random House
Sam Sax, Yr Dead
McSweeney’s
Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection
William Morrow / HarperCollins Publishers