Year-End Lists

The Center for Fiction: 2021 First Novel Prize

Winner

• The Five Wounds
  Kirstin Valdez Quade

Shortlist

• The City of Good Death
  Priyanka Champaneri
• Swimming Back to Trout River
  Linda Rui Feng
• The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
  Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
• Build Your House Around My Body
  Violet Kupersmith
• No One Is Talking About This
  Patricia Lockwood
• Brood
  Jackie Polzin

Longlist

• Radiant Fugitives
  Nawaaz Ahmed
• Black Buck
  Mateo Askaripour
• When I Ran Away
  Ilona Bannister
• Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer
  Jamie Figueroa
• The Baddest Girl on the Planet
  Heather Frese
• Edie Richter Is Not Alone
  Rebecca Handler
• The Sweetness of Water
  Nathan Harris
• The Revelations
  Erik Hoel
• A Little Hope
  Ethan Joella
• The Prophets
  Robert Jones Jr.
• Hades, Argentina
  Daniel Loedel
• Cormorant Lake
  Faith Merino
• The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven
  Nathaniel Ian Miller
• We Are Watching Eliza Bright
  A.E. Osworth
• Dava Shastri's Last Day
  Kirthana Ramisetti
• City of a Thousand Gates
  Rebecca Sacks
• Gold Diggers
  Sanjena Sathian
• The Archer
  Shruti Swamy
• Olympus, Texas
  Stacey Swann
• Animal
  Lisa Taddeo