Here’s the longlist for the 2026 National Book Award for Fiction.
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Key Points:
- The National Book Foundation announced the longlist for the 2026 National Book Award for Fiction, selecting ten titles from 451 submissions.
- The Fiction judges for this year are Matt Bell, Caro De Robertis (Chair), Danielle King, Akhil Sharma, and Diane Wilson.
- Finalists across all categories will be revealed on October 6, with winners announced at the 77th National Book Awards Ceremony on November 18.
- The 2026 Fiction longlist includes works by authors such as Hannah Lillith Assadi, Edwidge Danticat, Louise Erdrich, Marlon James, and Valeria Luiselli.
- Publishers represented on the longlist include Knopf/Penguin Random House, Counterpoint Press, Liveright/W. W. Norton, Harper/HarperCollins, Riverhead Books, Europa Editions, and Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
