2020 National Book Awards Longlist for Fiction

The ten contenders for the National Book Award for Fiction

The National Book Foundation has announced the Longlist for the 2020 National Book Award! Here is the longlist the National Book Award for Fiction:

Rumaan Alam - Leave the World Behind

Christopher Beha - The Index of Self-Destructive Acts

Brit Bennett - The Vanishing Half

Randall Kenan - If I Had Two Wings

Megha Majumdar - A Burning

Lydia Millet - A Children’s Bible

Deesha Philyaw - The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

Douglas Stuart - Shuggie Bain

Vanessa Veselka - The Great Offshore Grounds

Charles Yu - Interior Chinatown

~Stay tuned for the Finalists to be revealed on October 6th.~