Year-End Lists

The Center for Fiction: 2016 First Novel Prize

[see also 2015]

Winner

• The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter
  Kia Corthron

Shortlist

• The Girls
  Emma Cline
• Here Comes the Sun
  Nicole Dennis-Benn
• Homegoing
  Yaa Gyasi
• How I Became a North Korean
  Krys Lee
• We Love You, Charlie Freeman
  Kaitlyn Greenidge
• What Belongs to You
  Garth Greenwell

Longlist

• The Alaskan Laundry
  Brendan Jones
• All Joe Knight
  Kevin Morris
• Another Place You've Never Been
  Rebecca Kauffman
• As Close to Us as Breathing
  Elizabeth Poliner
• Dodgers
  Bill Beverly
• Girl Through Glass
  Sari Wilson
• Hurt People
  Cote Smith
• The Lightkeepers
  Abby Geni
• The Longest Night
  Andria Williams
• The Mirror Thief
  Martin Seay
• The Regional Office is Under Attack!
  Manuel Gonzales
• Shelter
  Jung Yun
• Stork Mountain
  Miroslav Penkov
• Sweetgirl
  Travis Mulhauser
• Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings
  Stephen O'Connor
• Tuesday Nights in 1980
  Molly Prentiss
• Work Like Any Other
  Virginia Reeves
• Wreck and Order
  Hannah Tennant-Moore