The 2025 National Book Award Longlist for Fiction

Booksology September 13, 2025 Blog

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This morning, the National Book Award unveiled a long list of fiction. This year’s eight winners have previously won this recognition, with the fiction scope including two debut authors and one collection of short stories.

Here are the 10 long list titles for the 2025 National Book Award for Fiction:

The fiction judges include chairs Rumaan Alam, Debra Magpie Earling, Attica Locke, Elizabeth McCracken and Cody Morrison.

For more information about Fiction for Fiction’s National Book Award Longlist, please visit our website. You can check out the long list of remaining awards for youth literature, translated literature, non-fiction and poetry.

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