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We are pleased to announce The Center for Fiction 2026 First Novel Prize Longlist. This year, we received over 180 submitted titles with U

This is the time of year when many workers of the world set their emails to let people know they’re away

Three of our fiction selections this week are from some of our favorite smaller presses who consistently discover indispensable...

Welcome to the inner workings of friends and family. This week we feature a Big Chill gathering of old friends during...

This week’s titles explore race, sexuality, and ethics: an upstate hamlet is unsettled by the return of a couple imprisoned...

We celebrate the beginning of the summer season with five novels that explore the meaning of life. One is a twisted take on a...

This week’s newsletter shares its title with one of the featured novels, and it is apt: you will encounter some very memorable...

This week we observe both fictional and real characters who have been influenced by their travels to unfamiliar places near and far

Irish noir, Danish divorce, Nigerian hauntings, a Bible-based female empowerment story, and women in Depression-era Mississippi...

A grieving young woman in the 1980s Midwest longs to escape her life and complete her dead uncle’s unfinished computer game...

There is a bit of tugging at the heartstrings this week. We celebrate the happy return of a prize-winning Scottish novelist with...

This week, we have two novels featured in upcoming events at The Center: a gorgeous and poignant story about sisters in Brazil...

This week features three novelists with well-earned reputations for offering tips on living. We have the return, after a decade...

Three of this week’s books concern London: an investigation into a mysterious death; a novel exploring friendship and the...

Three novels this week touch on fame: we have a slim yet potent book concerning a famous, aging writer; a group of midlife female...

The five novels this week introduce characters—parents, siblings, friends, and enemies—who span a wide range of circumstances...

Two of The Center’s upcoming programs launch books from this week’s selection: a much-anticipated conversation with a...

The week’s selection consists of five novels whose characters create powerful bonds that define their lives

The five books this week remind us how, despite life’s obstacles, we carry on. Whether through a memoir composed of staccato...

One does not have to write a long book to be worthy of acclaim. But readers increasingly seek out books of a certain length—whether...