Looking For Something To Read Next? Gather Inspiration from The 2016 Centre For Fiction First Novel Prize Longlist

'The Alaskan Laundry' by Brendan Jones (Mariner Books)
'All Joe Knight' by Kevin Morris (Grove Press) - (released Dec 6)
'Another Place You’ve Never Been' by Rebecca Kauffman (Soft Skull Press) - (released Oct. 11)
'As Close to Us as Breathing' by Elizabeth Poliner (Lee Boudreaux Books) - (released July 27)
'The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter' by Kia Corthron (Seven Stories Press)- (released Nov. 3)
'Dodgers' by Bill Beverly (Crown)
'Girl Through Glass' by Sari Wilson (Harper)
'The Girls' by Emma Cline (Random House)
'Here Comes the Sun' by Nicole Dennis-Benn (Liveright)
'How I Became a North Korean' by Krys Lee (Viking) - (released Aug. 2)
'Homegoing' by Yaa Gyasi (Knopf)
'Hurt People' by Cote Smith (FSG Originals)
'The Lightkeepers' by Abby Geni (Counterpoint)
'The Longest Night' by Andria Williams (Random House)
'The Mirror Thief' by Martin Seay (Melville House)
'The Regional Office is Under Attack!' by Manuel Gonzales (Riverhead Books)
'Shelter' by Jung Yun (Picador USA)
'Stork Mountain' by Miroslav Penkov (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
'Sweetgirl' by Travis Mulhauser (Ecco)
'Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally Hemings' by Stephen O’Connor (Viking)
'Tuesday Nights in 1980' by Molly Prentiss (Scout Press)
'We Love You, Charlie Freeman' by Kaitlyn Greenidge (Algonquin Books)
'What Belongs to You' by Garth Greenwell (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
'Work Like Any Other' by Virginia Reeves (Scribner)
'Wreck and Order' by Hannah Tennant-Moore (Hogarth)

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