Year-End Lists

The Center for Fiction: 2019 First Novel Prize

Winner

• In West Mills
  De'Shawn Charles Winslow

Shortlist

• American Spy
  Lauren Wilkinson
• Bangkok Wakes to Rain
  Pitchaya Sudbanthad
• Disappearing Earth
  Julia Phillips
• Fall Back Down When I Die
  Joe Wilkins
• On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
  Ocean Vuong
• The Unpassing
  Chia-Chia Lin

Longlist

• The Affairs of the Falcóns
  Melissa Rivero
• The Bobcat
  Katherine Forbes Riley
• The Dearly Beloved
  Cara Wall
• The Falconer
  Dana Czapnik
• The Farm
  Joanne Ramos
• Goodnight Stranger
  Miciah Bay Gault
• The History of Living Forever
  Jake Wolff
• The Gone Dead
  Chanelle Benz
• The Most Fun We Ever Had
  Claire Lombardo
• The Old Drift
  Namwali Serpell
• Oval
  Elvia Wilk
• The Paper Wasp
  Lauren Acampora
• A Particular Kind of Black Man
  Tope Folarin
• A Prayer for Travelers
  Ruchika Tomar
• A People's History of Heaven
  Mathangi Subramanian
• Riots I Have Known
  Ryan Chapman
• Tears of the Trufflepig
  Fernando A. Flores
• Tinfoil Butterfly
  Rachel Eve Moulton
• The Water Dancer
  Ta-Nehisi Coates
• We Cast a Shadow
  Maurice Carlos Ruffin