FICTION WINNER
Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Sympathizer
(Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic)
Viet Thanh Nguyen’s cross-grained protagonist exposes the hidden costs in both countries of America’s tragic Asian misadventure. Nguyen’s probing literary art illuminates how Americans failed in their political and military attempt to remake Vietnam—but then succeeded spectacularly in shrouding their failure in Hollywood distortions. Compelling—and profoundly unsettling.
NONFICTION WINNER
Sally Mann
Hold Still: A Memoir in Photographs
(Little, Brown, and Company, Hachette Book Group)
Mann reveals the deep wellsprings of her most poetic and disconcerting images. She shares, for the first time, the dark side of her notoriety, as well as the daring adventures behind more recent photographic series. Mann shares staggering family secrets, including her in-laws’ deceptive lives and violent deaths, her Mayflower-blue-blood mother’s scandalously unconventional childhood, and her self-sacrificing country-doctor father’s complicated legacy of slave ownership, wealth, and philanthropy.
SHORTLIST
FICTION FINALISTS
Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Sympathizer
(Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic)
Jim Shepard
The Book of Aron
(Alfred A. Knopf, Penguin Random House, LLC)
Hanya Yanagihara
A Little Life
(Doubleday, Penguin Random House, LLC)
NONFICTION FINALISTS
Helen Macdonald
H is for Hawk
(Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic)
Sally Mann
Hold Still
(Little, Brown, and Company, Hachette Book Group)
Andrea Wulf
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
(Alfred A. Knopf, Penguin Random House, LLC)
LONGLIST
Fiction:
Acevedo, Chantel. The Distant Marvels. (Europa)
Boyle, T. C. The Harder They Come. (Ecco)
Campbell, Bonnie Jo. Mothers, Tell Your Daughters. (Norton)
Clegg, Bill. Did You Ever Have a Family. (Simon & Schuster/Scout)
Cusk, Rachel. Outline. (Farrar)
Enright, Anne. The Green Road. (Norton)
Franzen, Jonathan. Purity. (Farrar)
Gottlieb, Eli. Best Boy. (Norton/Liveright)
Hallberg, Garth Risk. City on Fire. (Knopf)
Hannaham, James. Delicious Foods. (Little, Brown)
Johnson, T. Geronimo. Welcome to Braggsville. (Morrow)
Meno, Joe. Marvel and a Wonder. (Akashic)
Nguyen, Viet Thanh. The Sympathizer. (Grove)
Pearlman, Edith. Honeydew. (Little, Brown)
Shepard, Jim. The Book of Aron. (Knopf)
Treuer, David. Prudence. (Riverhead)
Tyler, Anne. A Spool of Blue Thread. (Knopf)
Vollmann, William T. The Dying Grass. (Viking)
Williams, Joy. The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories. (Knopf)
Yanagihara, Hanya. A Little Life. (Doubleday)
Nonfiction:
Appy, Christian G. American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity. (Viking)
Berman, Ari. Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America. (Farrar)
Chayes, Sarah. Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security. (Norton)
Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the World and Me. (Spiegel & Grau)
Fraser, Steve. The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power. (Little, Brown)
Green, Kristen. Something Must Be Done about Prince Edward County: A Family, a Virginia Town, a Civil Rights Battle. (Harper)
Haygood, Wil. Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America. (Knopf)
Herrera, Hayden. Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi. (Farrar)
Macdonald, Helen. H Is for Hawk. (Grove)
Mann, Sally. Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs. (Little, Brown)
Marsh, Henry. Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery. (St. Martin’s/Thomas Dunne)
Nabokov, Peter. How the World Moves: The Odyssey of an American Indian Family. (Viking)
Parini, Jay. Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal. (Doubleday)
Sacks, Oliver. On the Move. (Knopf)
Safina, Carl. Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel. (Holt)
Schiff, Stacy. The Witches: Salem, 1692. (Little, Brown)
Smith, Patti. M Train. (Knopf)
Weinberg, Steven. To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science. (Harper)
Winchester, Simon. Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers. (Harper)
Wulf, Andrea. Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World. (Knopf)
