The National Book Foundation released longlists for the 2024 National Book Awards last week, ending with the fiction category on Friday. Finalists will be announced October 1, and winners named November 20 at the 75th National Book Awards Ceremony. This year's longlisted fiction titles are:
Ghostroots by 'Pemi Aguda (W.W. Norton)
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar (Knopf)
The Most by Jessica Anthony (Little, Brown)
Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio (One World/PRH)
James by Percival Everett (Doubleday)
All Fours by Miranda July (Riverhead)
Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner (Scribner)
My Friends by Hisham Matar (Random House)
Yr Dead by Sam Sax (McSweeney's)
Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte (Morrow)