The National Book Awards have announced their fiction longlist
- Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman (Grove Press/ Grove/Atlantic)
- Molly Antopol, The UnAmericans (W. W. Norton & Company)
- John Darnielle, Wolf in White Van (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See (Scribner/ Simon & Schuster)
- Phil Klay, Redeployment (The Penguin Press/ Penguin Group (USA))
- Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven (Alfred A. Knopf/ Random House)
- Elizabeth McCracken, Thunderstruck & Other Stories (The Dial Press/ Random House)
- Richard Powers, Orfeo (W.W. Norton & Company)
- Marilynne Robinson, Lila (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- Jane Smiley, Some Luck (Alfred A. Knopf/ Random House)