2017-2018 Simpson Family Literary Prize Longlist Announced
Chris Adrian, The Great Night (Picador)
Chris Bachelder, The Throwback Special (Norton)
Tom Barbash, Stay Up With Me (Ecco)
Katie Crouch, Abroad (Sarah Crichton Books FSG)
Ron Currie, One-Eyed Man (Viking/Penguin)
Jennifer Dubois, The Cartwheel (Random House)
David Gilbert, & Sons (Random House)
Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone (Little, Brown)
Dara Horn, A Guide for the Perplexed (Norton)
T. Geronimo Johnson, Welcome to Braggsville (William Morrow)
Louis P. Jones, Radiance (Counterpoint)
Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers (Scribner)
Edie Meidav, Lola California (Picador)
C.E. Morgan, Sport of Kings (FSG)
Joshua Mohr, All This Life (Counterpoint/Soft Skull Press)
Naomi Munawera, What Lies Between Us (St Martin)
Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen (Penguin)
Peter Orner, Love and Shame and Love (Back Bay)
Lori Ostlund, After the Parade (Scribner)
Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic (Anchor)
Elizabeth Rosner, Electric City (Counterpoint)
Keith Scribner, The Oregon Experiment (Vintage)
Dominic Smith, The Last Painting of Sara de Vos (Sarah Crichton FSG)
J. Courtney Sullivan, The Engagements (Vintage)
Vendela Vida, The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty (Ecco)
Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins (Harper)
Brad Watson, Miss Jane (Norton)
Teddy Wayne, The Loner (Simon & Schuster)
Allison Amend, Enchanted Islands (Nan A. Talese)
Emily Barton, The Book of Esther (Tim Duggan Books)
Matt Bell, A Tree, A Person, or a Wall (Soho)
Marc Bojanowski, The Dog Fighter (William Morrow)
Kevin Brockmeier, The Illumination (Vintage Contemporaries)
Alexander Chee, The Queen of the Night (Mariner Books)
Susan Choi, My Education (Penguin)
Teju Cole, Open City (Random House)
Elizabeth Crane, The History of Great Things (Harper Perennial)
Elizabeth Evans, As Good as Dead (Bloomsbury)
Brett Anthony Johnston, Remember Me Like This (Random House)
Jeffrey Lent, A Slant of Light (Bloomsbury)
Valeria Luiselli, The Story of My Teeth (Coffee House)
Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven (Vintage)
Phillip Meyer, The Son (Ecco)
Ann Pancake, Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley (Counterpoint)
Donald Ray Pollock, The Heavenly Table (Doubleday)
Christine Sneed, Paris, He Said (Bloomsbury)
Dana Spiotta, Innocents and Others (Scribner)
Mary Helen Stefaniak, The Cailiffs of Baghdad (Georgia (Norton)
Elizabeth Stuckey-French, The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady (Doubleday)