The National Book Foundation has released the longlist for the 2023 National Book Awards in the fiction category, the last of the awards' five categories to be announced. (The others are Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People's Literature.) Finalists will be revealed October 3, and winners named November 15 at the National Book Awards Ceremony. The fiction longlist:
Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Pantheon Books)
Temple Folk by Aaliyah Bilal (Simon & Schuster)
Ponyboy by Eliot Duncan (W.W. Norton)
This Other Eden by Paul Harding (W.W. Norton)
Loot by Tania James (Knopf)
Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips (Knopf)
A Council of Dolls by Mona Susan Power (Mariner Books)
The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen (Holt)
Blackouts by Justin Torres (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Holler, Child by LaToya Watkins (Tiny Reparations Books)
