Year-End Lists

The Center for Fiction: 2022 First Novel Prize

Winner

• If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
  Noor Naga

Shortlist

• Brown Girls
  Daphne Palasi Andreades
• The School for Good Mothers
  Jessamine Chan
• NSFW
  Isabel Kaplan
• Little Rabbit
  Alyssa Songsiridej
• Big Girl
  Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
• The Immortal King Rao
  Vauhini Vara

Longlist

• When We Were Sisters
  Fatimah Asghar
• Nobody's Magic
  Destiny O. Birdsong
• Activities of Daily Living
  Lisa Hsiao Chen
• The Sign for Home
  Blair Fell
• Shadows of Pecan Hollow
  Caroline Frost
• Lungfish
  Meghan Gilliss
• What the Fireflies Knew
  Kai Harris
• Post-Traumatic
  Chantal V. Johnson
• Fire Season
  Leyna Krow
• We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies
  Tsering Yangzom Lama
• Portrait of a Thief
  Grace D. Li
• The Boy with a Bird in His Chest
  Emme Lund
• Nightcrawling
  Leila Mottley
• Vagabonds!
  Eloghosa Osunde
• The Candid Life of Meena Dave
  Namrata Patel
• Border Less
  Namrata Poddar
• A Map for the Missing
  Belinda Huijuan Tang