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Book RecsFirst Novel Prize
Announcing The Center for Fiction 2026 First Novel Prize Longlist
We are pleased to announce The Center for Fiction 2026 First Novel Prize Longlist. This year, we received over 180 submitted titles with U
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Out of Office
This is the time of year when many workers of the world set their emails to let people know they’re away. The prospect of having unscheduled...
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The Heat of the Day
Three of our fiction selections this week are from some of our favorite smaller presses who consistently discover indispensable writers for indie...
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Inner and Outer Space
Welcome to the inner workings of friends and family. This week we feature a Big Chill gathering of old friends during a week-long summer...
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Prejudice and Pride
This week’s titles explore race, sexuality, and ethics: an upstate hamlet is unsettled by the return of a couple imprisoned for murder; a shapeshifting...
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Our Search for Meaning
We celebrate the beginning of the summer season with five novels that explore the meaning of life. One is a twisted take on a long-ago fable...
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Meeting New People
This week’s newsletter shares its title with one of the featured novels, and it is apt: you will encounter some very memorable characters in...
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Strangers in Strange Lands
This week we observe both fictional and real characters who have been influenced by their travels to unfamiliar places near and far
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Astonish Me
Irish noir, Danish divorce, Nigerian hauntings, a Bible-based female empowerment story, and women in Depression-era Mississippi fighting against...
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Dreams of Escape
A grieving young woman in the 1980s Midwest longs to escape her life and complete her dead uncle’s unfinished computer game; another young woman...
