Year-End Lists

The Center for Fiction: 2020 First Novel Prize

Winner

• Luster
  Raven Leilani

Shortlist

• How Much of These Hills Is Gold
  C Pam Zhang
• Indelicacy
  Amina Cain
• The Redshirt
  Corey Sobel
• Shuggie Bain
  Douglas Stuart
• Temporary
  Hilary Leichter
• These Ghosts Are Family
  Maisy Card

Longlist

• The All-Night Sun
  Diane Zinna
• Antkind
  Charlie Kaufman
• August
  Callan Wink
• The Beauty of Your Face
  Sahar Mustafah
• Bestiary
  K-Ming Chang
• Conjure Women
  Afia Atakora
• Crooked Hallelujah
  Kelli Jo Ford
• Godshot
  Chelsea Bieker
• The Henna Artist
  Alka Joshi
• The Illness Lesson
  Clare Beams
• Kept Animals
  Kate Milliken
• Memorial
  Bryan Washington
• My Dark Vanessa
  Kate Elizabeth Russell
• Real Life
  Brandon Taylor
• Sharks in the Time of Saviors
  Kawai Strong Washburn
• Things You Would Know If You Grew Up Around Here
  Nancy Wayson Dinan
• True Story
  Kate Reed Petty
• Under the Rainbow
  Celia Laskey
• Valentine
  Elizabeth Wetmore
• White Ivy
  Susie Yang