Rumaan Alam, “Leave the World Behind”
Christopher Beha, “The Index of Self-Destructive Acts”
Brit Bennett, “The Vanishing Half”
Randall Kenan, “If I Had Two Wings”
Megha Majumdar, “A Burning”
Lydia Millet, “A Children’s Bible”
Deesha Philyaw, “The Secret Lives of Church Ladies”
Douglas Stuart, “Shuggie Bain”
Vanessa Veselka, “The Great Offshore Grounds”
Charles Yu, “Interior Chinatown”