The PEN/Faulkner Foundation released the longlist for the 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Finalists will be unveiled in early March, with the winner named in April. The longlisted titles are:
Ghostroots by 'Pemi Aguda (W. W. Norton)
Behind You Is the Sea by Susan Muaddi Darraj (HarperVia)
The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich (Harper)
James by Percival Everett (Doubleday)
Small Rain by Garth Greenwell (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner (Scribner)
There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven by Ruben Reyes Jr. (Mariner)
Colored Television by Danzy Senna (Riverhead)
The History of Sound by Ben Shattuck (Viking)
Devil Is Fine by John Vercher (Celadon)
Awards committee chair Lauren Francis-Sharma said: "This year's list teems with the personal and the historic, offering us humor, tenderness, and hardship, all while confronting readers with a clarity that is reflective of the exciting breadth of American fiction."