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10 books on fiction longlist for National Book Awards


The National Book Foundation has announced the longlist of 10 books for the 2016 National Book Award for fiction. Finalists will be revealed on Oct. 13.

The longlist nominees:

Chris Bachelder, The Throwback Special (Norton)

Garth Greenwell, What Belongs to You (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone (Little, Brown)

Paulette Jiles, News of the World (William Morrow)

Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs (Viking)

Elizabeth McKenzie, The Portable Veblen (Penguin Press)

Lydia Millet, Sweet Lamb of Heaven (Norton)

Brad Watson, Miss Jane (Norton)

Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad (Doubleday)

Jacqueline Woodson, Another Brooklyn (Amistad)

The National Book Award winners will be announced at a ceremony in New York on Nov. 16.