Without further ado, the long list for the Natonal Book Award in fiction, with links to Star Tribune reviews, when available. The short list will be revealed Oct. 14, with the winner announced in November.
Jesse Ball, A Cure for Suicide (Pantheon Books)
Karen E. Bender, Refund: Stories (Soft Skull/Counterpoint Press)
Bill Clegg, Did You Ever Have a Family (Scout Press/Simon & Schuster)
Angela Flournoy, The Turner House (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies (Riverhead Books/Penguin Random House) (Our review runs Sunday.)
Adam Johnson, Fortune Smiles: Stories (Random House)
T. Geronimo Johnson, Welcome to Braggsville (William Morrow/HarperCollins)
Edith Pearlman, Honeydew (Little, Brown/Hachette Book Group)
Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life (Doubleday/Penguin Random House)
Nell Zink, Mislaid (Ecco/HarperCollins)
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