The Anthropologists by Ayşegül Savaş (Bloomsbury)
Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Colored Television by Danzy Senna (Riverhead)
Godwin by Joseph O’Neill (Pantheon)
Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham (Hogarth)
James by Percival Everett (Doubleday)
My Friends by Hisham Matar (Random House)
Sister Deborah by Scholastique Mukasonga, translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti (Archipelago)
Small Rain by Garth Greenwell (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)Us Fools by Nora Lange (Two Dollar Radio)