Year-End Lists

The Center for Fiction: 2015 First Novel Prize

[see also 2016]

Winner

• The Sympathizer
  Viet Thanh Nguyen

Shortlist

• After the Parade
  Lori Ostlund
• Against the Country
  Ben Metcalf
• Bright Lines
  Tanwi Nandini Islam
• The Fishermen
  Chigozie Obioma
• The Turner House
  Angela Flournoy
• The Unfortunates
  Sophie McManus

Longlist

• The Beautiful Bureaucrat
  Helen Phillips
• Black River
  S.M. Hulse
• City on Fire
  Garth Risk Hallberg
• Eileen
  Ottessa Moshfegh
• Find Me
  Laura van den Berg
• The First Bad Man
  Miranda July
• Girl at War
  Sara Novic
• The Girl from the Garden
  Parnaz Foroutan
• Gold Fame Citrus
  Claire Vaye Watkins
• The Heart of the Order
  Theo Schell-Lambert
• The Hopeful
  Tracy O'Neill
• I'd Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them
  Jesse Goolsby
• Landfalls
  Naomi J. Williams
• The Language of Paradise
  Barbara Klein Moss
• Make Your Home Among Strangers
  Jennine Capo Crucet
• Orhan's Inheritance
  Aline Ohanesian
• She Weeps Each Time You're Born
  Quan Barry
• The Star Side of Bird Hill
  Naomi Jackson
• The Sunlit Night
  Rebecca Dinerstein
• The Sweetheart
  Angelina Mirabella
• Under the Udala Trees
  Chinelo Okparanta
• You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine
  Alexandra Kleeman