Year-End Lists

The Center for Fiction: 2017 First Novel Prize

Winner

• Mikhail and Margarita
  Julie Lekstrom Himes

Shortlist

• As Lie Is to Grin
  Simeon Marsalis
• Empire of Glass
  Kaitlin Solimine
• The Second Mrs. Hockaday
  Susan Rivers
• Spaceman of Bohemia
  Jaroslav Kalfař
• Tiger Pelt
  Annabelle Kim
• What to Do About the Solomons
  Bethany Ball

Longlist

• All That’s Left to Tell
  Daniel Lowe
• Everything Belongs to Us
  Yoojin Grace Wuertz
• Feast of Sorrow

  A Novel of Ancient Rome
  Crystal King
• Lincoln in the Bardo
  George Saunders
• The Lucky Ones
  Julianne Pachico
• Marlena
  Julie Buntin
• Motherest
  Kristen Iskandrian
• Murder on the Red River
  Marcie R. Rendon
• My Absolute Darling
  Gabriel Tallent
• Rabbit Cake
  Annie Hartnett
• Spoils
  Brian Van Reet
• Temporary People
  Deepak Unnikrishnan
• Time’s a Thief
  B.G. Firmani
• Who Is Rich?
  Matthew Klam
• The World of Tomorrow
  Brendan Mathews