Twenty-five Finalists to contend for National Book Awards in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature New York, NY – The 25 Finalists for the...

In American Hagwon, the third book in a planned quartet, Min Jin Lee reveals the ambitions and fortunes of a striving Korean family from 1992 to 2007.

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Set just after World War I, “The Eye of Goliath” details a man’s descent into madness and a doctor’s unorthodox treatment methods.

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The longlist for the Booker Prize 2026 has been announced, featuring two previous winners and three debut novelists

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The ten contenders for the National Book Award for Fiction Find the New Yorker announcement here. The National Book Foundation today announced the Longlist for the 2026 National Book Award for Fiction with The New Yorker. The Finalists in all five categories will be revealed on Tuesday, October 6 with the New York Times; Winners will be announced live at the 77th National Book Awards Ceremony & Benefit Dinner on Wednesday, November 18, 2026. For more information and to register to watch the livestream, please visit nationalbook.org/awards. The 2026 Fiction Longlist features two debut novels among the ten titles. Six authors on the Longlist have been previously honored by the National Book Foundation: Hannah Lillith Assadi, a 2018 5 Under 35 honoree for Sonora; Kimberly Blaeser, a 2026 Science + Literature honoree for Ancient Light; Edwidge Danticat, a 1995 Finalist for Fiction for Krik? Krak! and a 2007 Finalist for Nonfiction … Continue reading "Longlist for the 2026 National Book Award for Fiction"

Dillard's work was characterized by spare prose and a deep connection to nature. She is best known for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, An American Childhood, The Maytrees and The Writing Life.

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The ten contenders for the National Book Award for Translated Literature New York, NY (September 15, 2026) – The National Book Foundation today announced the Longlist for the 2026 National Book Award ...

"Driven by premise rather than plot, The Formosa Exchange is packaged as a nesting doll of speculative metafiction," writes critic Michelle Chan Schmidt.

Sebastian Barry's The Newer World sets out the life and times of Tennyson Bouguereau, a freed man making his way in postbellum America.

Sylvie feels like her radical world only exists in the past and as she gets older her choices and world are shrinking.

There’s a certain type of decay that some writers like to romanticize. The weeds sprouting among the ruins of an abandoned mill become a bountiful garden. Not so in Poke, South Carolina, the common se...

Moisés is a young boy growing up in a remote Brazilian village that is dominated by a monastery that not only rules the moral world of the town, but also its land, charging regular taxes. His sister, ...

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324 pp. July 23, 2026, Cassava Republic Press. Fiction/Zambia. Sali has murdered her husband. She’s the only real witness to his death—it was just the two of them in the room—but their daughter was…

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Reading Daniel Mason’s fiction, one gets the strong impression that the man has never found a rabbit hole that he won’t go down or at least poke his head into for a quick look. His stories and novels ...

These micro-fictions can feel slight, funny, or confounding—but their strange imagery and off-kilter observations occasionally land with surprising force.

The flood of dystopian novels being released these days is almost as exhausting as the daily news cycle, but, once again, Emily St. John Mandel shows us how it’s done.

by Luis Muñoz, translated by Idra Novey and Garth Greenwell Reviewed by Taylor Stendebach Oh. I’ve met people like that.

Melancholic and unyielding, James' Booker Prize longlisted new novel, 'The Disappearers,' captures a community fighting to exist despite relentless persecution.

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Now in his eighties, Colin Thubron is best known for his acclaimed and intrepid travel writing, though he is also the author of eight equally intriguing

Trans. Philip Roughton. Biblioasis. 2026. 285 pages.