2025 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Longlist

Updated March 4, 2025
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Creation Lake
Kushner, Rachel
Paper Book
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024** **INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** 'Imagine Slow Horses' Jackson Lamb in the body of Jodie Comer's character in Killing Eve' SUNDAY TIMES 'Compulsively readable... Kill Bill<...
Ghostroots
Aguda, 'Pemi.
Paper Book
The supernatural looms over the grime and sweat of everyday life in Lagos in this dazzling collection of stories from a prize-winning young Nigerian writer.'You'll find it hard to tear yourself away' Ore Agbaje-Williams, author of The Three of Us'Each story is a tiny wonder'...
The mighty red
Erdrich, Louise
Paper Book
'Erdrich remains one of the world's literary giants' Boston Globe In Argus, North Dakota, a fraught wedding is taking place. Gary Geist, a terrified young man set to inherit two farms, is desperate to marry Kismet Poe. Gary thinks Kismet is the answer to all of...
James : a novel
Everett, Percival
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST * ONE OF...
The mighty red
Erdrich, Louise
Paper Book
'Erdrich remains one of the world's literary giants' Boston Globe In Argus, North Dakota, a fraught wedding is taking place. Gary Geist, a terrified young man set to inherit two farms, is desperate to marry Kismet Poe. Gary thinks Kismet is the answer to all of...
Colored television
Senna, Danzy
Paper Book
Finalist for the 2025 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION and the ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARD IN FICTION. Longlisted for the 2025 JOYCE CAROL OATES LITERARY PRIZE, the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE FICTION PRIZE, the CARNEGIE MEDAL 2025 and the 2025 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR...
The History of Sound
Shattuck, Ben
Paper Book
Soon to be a major movie starring Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor'Exquisitely crafted, deeply imagined, exhilaratingly diverse, The History of Sound places Ben Shattuck firmly among the very finest of our storytellers' - Geraldine Brooks, New York Times bestselling author of Horse 'Stellar...

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