2026 Fiction Results
Finalists
Semifinalists
Quarterfinalists
A Guardian and a Thief – Megha Majumdar
Bad Bad Girl – Gish Jen
Buckeye – Patrick Ryan
Culpability – Bruce Holsinger
Cursed Daughters – Oyinkan Braithwaite
Fox – Joyce Carol Oates
Heart the Lover – Lily King
Nesting – Roisín O’Donnell
Seascraper – Benjamin Wood
Show Don’t Tell – Curtis Sittenfeld
Stag Dance – Torrey Peters
Stone Yard Devotional – Charlotte Wood
The Antidote – Karen Russell
The Correspondent – Virginia Evans
The Dream Hotel – Laila Lalami
The Emperor of Gladness – Ocean Vuong
The Girls Who Grew Big – Leila Mottley
The Lilac People – Milo Todd
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny – Kiran Desai
The Names – Florence Knapp
Three Days in June – Anne Tyler
What We Can Know – Ian McEwan
Wild Dark Shore – Charlotte McConaghy
Woodworking – Emily St. James
Bad Bad Girl – Gish Jen
Buckeye – Patrick Ryan
Culpability – Bruce Holsinger
Cursed Daughters – Oyinkan Braithwaite
Fox – Joyce Carol Oates
Heart the Lover – Lily King
Nesting – Roisín O’Donnell
Seascraper – Benjamin Wood
Show Don’t Tell – Curtis Sittenfeld
Stag Dance – Torrey Peters
Stone Yard Devotional – Charlotte Wood
The Antidote – Karen Russell
The Correspondent – Virginia Evans
The Dream Hotel – Laila Lalami
The Emperor of Gladness – Ocean Vuong
The Girls Who Grew Big – Leila Mottley
The Lilac People – Milo Todd
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny – Kiran Desai
The Names – Florence Knapp
Three Days in June – Anne Tyler
What We Can Know – Ian McEwan
Wild Dark Shore – Charlotte McConaghy
Woodworking – Emily St. James
Octofinalists
Amity – Nathan Harris
Audition – Katie Kitamura
Dream Count – Chimamanada Ngozie Adichie
Endling – Maria Reva
Exit Zero – Marie-Helene Bertino
Flashlight – Susan Choi
Flesh – David Szalay
Gliff – Ali Smith
Helm – Sarah Hall
Minor Black Figures – Brandon Taylor
Old School Indian – Aaron John Curtis
People Like Us – Jason Mott
Shadow Ticket – Thomas Pynchon
So Far Gone – Jess Walter
The Echoes – Evie Wyld
The Eleventh Hour – Salman Rushdie
The Land in Winter – Andrew Miller
The Sisters – Jonas Hassen Khemiri
The Slip – Lucas Schaefer
The Sunflower Boys – Sam Wachman
Theft – Abdulrazak Gurnah
Theory & Practice – Michelle de Kretser
Tom’s Crossing – Mark Z. Danielewski
Vera, or Faith – Gary Shteyngart
Audition – Katie Kitamura
Dream Count – Chimamanada Ngozie Adichie
Endling – Maria Reva
Exit Zero – Marie-Helene Bertino
Flashlight – Susan Choi
Flesh – David Szalay
Gliff – Ali Smith
Helm – Sarah Hall
Minor Black Figures – Brandon Taylor
Old School Indian – Aaron John Curtis
People Like Us – Jason Mott
Shadow Ticket – Thomas Pynchon
So Far Gone – Jess Walter
The Echoes – Evie Wyld
The Eleventh Hour – Salman Rushdie
The Land in Winter – Andrew Miller
The Sisters – Jonas Hassen Khemiri
The Slip – Lucas Schaefer
The Sunflower Boys – Sam Wachman
Theft – Abdulrazak Gurnah
Theory & Practice – Michelle de Kretser
Tom’s Crossing – Mark Z. Danielewski
Vera, or Faith – Gary Shteyngart