Book Recommendations | The Center for Fiction

2019 First Novel Prize

The Center for Fiction 2019 First Novel Prize was awarded to De’Shawn Charles Winslow for his debut novel In West Mills...

Our 2019 First Novel Prize winner, De’Shawn Charles Winslow, shares six books he thinks would make great gifts. You can find each of these...

From Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House to Andrea Long Chu’s Females, check out our bookstore’s top...

This Junior Edition features tales inspired by mythology & folklore. From Anansi to Antigone, these books have deep storytelling roots.

From Ben Lerner’s The Topeka School to Tressie McMillan Cottom’s Thick and Jia Tolentino’s Trick Mirror...

Check out six great picks from novelist Richard Powers, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory and member of our Writers Council.

From Margaret Atwood’s chilling sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale to Writers Council member Richard Powers’s Pulitzer...

National Book Award-winning author Jonathan Franzen (The Corrections, Freedom, The End of the End of the Earth) on...

Whether it’s an adventure to an imaginary land or a trip to Haiti, these books will have you going places with a click-clack!

We’re asking members of our Writers Council to recommend six of their favorite reads. Whether new or old, best sellers or hidden gems, grand...