PEN/Faulkner AwardLonglist

Given by PEN/Faulkner Foundation

Other Names: PEN/Faulkner Award finalist
55 Works 24,518 Books 1,093 Reviews ½ 3.9
The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is a national prize which honors the best published works of fiction by American citizens in a calendar year. Three judges, chosen annually by the directors of show more the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, select five books from among the more than 300 works submitted, making this the largest peer-juried award in the country. The winning writer and four finalists are honored at a ceremony held in Washington at the Folger Shakespeare Library in May. show less
Stages:
All, Winner (44), Finalist (224), Longlist (55)
Years:
All, 2024 (10), 2023 (10), 2022 (10), 2021 (10), 2020 (10), 2019 (5)
Announced:
April 4: Winner2024 Recent
March 5: Finalist2024 Recent

Longlist 55

WorkYear
What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez by Claire Jiménez2024
Witness: Stories by Jamel Brinkley2024
Open Throat by Henry Hoke2024
Absolution by Alice McDermott2024
Users : a novel by Colin Winnette2024
The Guest by Emma Cline2024
Monica by Daniel Clowes2024
The Best Possible Experience: Stories by Nishanth Injam2024
Biography of X by Catherine Lacey2024
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride2024
The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li2023
If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery2023
Fruiting Bodies: Stories by Kathryn Harlan2023
The Islands: Stories by Dionne Irving2023
Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm by Laura Warrell2023
Does My Body Offend You? by Mayra Cuevas2023
The Family Izquierdo: A Novel by Rubén Degollado2023
Hawk Mountain by Conner Habib2023
Self-Portrait with Ghost: Short Stories by Meng Jin2023
Invisible Things by Mat Johnson2023
The Wrong End of the Telescope by Rabih Alameddine2022
Radiant Fugitives by Nawaaz Ahmed2022
The President and the Frog by Carolina De Robertis2022
Dear Miss Metropolitan by Carolyn Ferrell2022
How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue2022
A Play for the End of the World: A novel by Jai Chakrabarti2022
The Trees by Percival Everett2022
My Monticello: Fiction by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson2022
Intimacies by Katie Kitamura2022
Chouette by Claire Oshetsky2022
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw2021
Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear: A Novel by Matthew Salesses2021
The Knockout Queen by Rufi Thorpe2021
Mother Daughter Widow Wife by Robin Wasserman2021
Scattered Lights: Stories by Steve Wiegenstein2021
Nine Shiny Objects by Brian Castleberry2021
Bestiary by K-Ming Chang2021
The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories by Danielle Evans2021
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi2021
Dear Ann by Bobbie Ann Mason2021
Sea Monsters by Chloe Aridjis2020
Where Reasons End by Yiyun Li2020
The Night Swimmers by Peter Rock2020
We Cast a Shadow by Maurice Carlos Ruffin2020
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong2020
Patsy by Nicole Dennis-Benn2020
Sing to It by Amy Hempel2020
The Topeka School by Ben Lerner2020
A People's History of Heaven by Mathangi Subramanian2020
The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson2020
Call Me Zebra by Azareen van der Vliet Oloomi2019
Tomb of the Unknown Racist: A Novel by Blanche McCrary Boyd2019
The Overstory by Richard Powers2019
Love War Stories by Ivelisse Rodriguez2019
Don't Skip Out on Me by Willy Vlautin2019

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The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is a national prize which honors the best published works of fiction by American citizens in a calendar year. Three judges, chosen annually by the directors of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, select five books from among the more than 300 works submitted, making this the largest peer-juried award in the country. The winning writer and four finalists are honored at a ceremony held in Washington at the Folger Shakespeare Library in May. (English, Member-written)
The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is a national prize that honors the best published works of fiction by American citizens in a calendar year. (English, Member-written)

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