The 2026 National Book Award for Fiction Longlist

The National Book Foundation just announced the ten books longlisted for the 2026 National Book Award for Fiction. Palestinian exile, a Miami mass shooting, queer life in 1980s Jamaica, a bathroom that turns into a Turkish prison cell. Here are the ten books still in the running.

  1. Paradiso 17 — Hannah Lillith Assadi #1
  2. Red Ants — Kimberly Blaeser #2
  3. Dèy — Edwidge Danticat #3
  4. Pretend You're Dead and I Carry You — Julián Delgado Lopera #4
  5. Python's Kiss — Louise Erdrich #5
  6. The Disappearers — Marlon James #6
  7. Beginning Middle End — Valeria Luiselli #7
  8. Passengers — Alexander Maksik #8
  9. The Renovation — Kenan Orhan #9
  10. Mad Eden — Morgan Thomas #10
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