Year-End Lists

The Center for Fiction: 2018 First Novel Prize

Winner

• There There
  Tommy Orange

Shortlist

• Asymmetry
  Lisa Halliday
• Confessions of the Fox
  Jordy Rosenberg
• Freshwater
  Akwaeke Emezi
• The Parking Lot Attendant
  Nafkote Tamirat
• Pretend I'm Dead
  Jen Beagin
• Trenton Makes
  Tadzio Koelb

Longlist

• America Is Not the Heart
  Elaine Castillo
• Brass
  Xhenet Aliu
• The Devoted
  Blair Hurley
• The Distance Home
  Paula Saunders
• Girls Burn Brighter
  Shobha Rao
• The Golden State
  Lydia Kiesling
• If You Leave Me
  Crystal Hana Kim
• Inappropriation
  Lexi Freiman
• Number One Chinese Restaurant
  Lillian Li
• The Pisces
  Melissa Broder
• A Place for Us
  Fatima Farheen Mirza
• Restless Souls
  Dan Sheehan
• Sabrina
  Nick Drnaso
• Sadness Is a White Bird
  Moriel Rothman-Zecher
• Self-Portrait with Boy
  Rachel Lyon
• Song of a Captive Bird
  Jasmin Darznik
• What We Were Promised
  Lucy Tan
• Whiskey & Ribbons
  Leesa Cross-Smith
• The Wonder That Was Ours
  Alice Hatcher