Year-End Lists

The Center for Fiction: 2014 First Novel Prize

Winner

• Land of Love and Drowning
  Tiphanie Yanique

Shortlist

• The Enchanted
  Rene Denfeld
• Fourth of July Creek
  Smith Henderson
• The Great Glass Sea
  Josh Weil
• The Invention of Exile
  Vanessa Manko
• The Land of Steady Habits
  Ted Thompson
• We Are Not Ourselves
  Matthew Thomas

Longlist

• The Anatomy of Dreams
  Chloe Benjamin
• An Untamed State
  Roxane Gay
• Byrd
  Kim Church
• Cementville
  Paulette Livers
• The End of Always
  Randi Davenport
• For Today I Am a Boy
  Kim Fu
• The Girls from Corona del Mar
  Rufi Thorpe
• The Kept
  James Scott
• Life Drawing
  Robin Black
• Radiance of Tomorrow
  Ishmael Beah
• Remember Me Like This
  Bret Anthony Johnston
• Ruby
  Cynthia Bond
• Saint Monkey
  Jacinda Townsend
• Shotgun Lovesongs
  Nickolas Butler
• The Sixteenth of June
  Maya Lang
• The Visionist
  Rachel Urquhart
• What Ends
  Andrew Ladd
• The Word Exchange
  Alena Graedon
• Young God
  Katherine Faw Morris