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Nonfiction Octafinalists |
                                                Akwaeke Emezi – The Death of Vivek Oji
Ali Smith – Summer Anne Enright – Actress Anne Tyler – Redhead by the Side of the Road Ayad Aktar – Homeland Elegies Brandon Taylor – Real Life Brit Bennett – The Vanishing Half Bryan Washington – Memorial C Pam Zhang – How Much of These Hills Is Gold Carter Sickels – The Prettiest Star Catherine Lacey – Pew Charles Yu – Interior Chinatown Colum McCann – Apeirogon Daisy Johnson – Sisters David Mitchell – Utopia Avenue Deb Olin Unferth – Barn 8 Deepa Anappara – Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line Douglas Stuart – Shuggie Bain Emily St. John Mandel – The Glass Hotel Emma Donoghue – The Pull of the Stars Garth Greenwell – Cleanness Hilary Mantel – The Mirror & the Light Ingrid Persaud – Love After Love James McBride – Deacon King Kong Jeanine Cummins – American Dirt Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi – A Girl Is a Body of Water Jenny Offill – Weather Jess Kidd – Things in Jars Kate Elizabeth Russell – My Dark Vanessa Kelli Jo Ford – Crooked Hallelujah Lily King – Writers & Lovers Louise Erdrich – The Night Watchman Lydia Millet – A Children’s Bible Maggie O’Farrell – Hamnet Marie-Helene Bertino – Parakeet Marilynne Robinson – Jack Megha Majumdar – A Burning Michelle Gallen – Big Girl, Small Town Ottessa Moshfegh – Death in Her Hands Paul Yoon – Run Me to Earth Raven Leilani – Luster Rumaan Alam – Leave the World Behind Sigrid Nunez – What Are You Going Through Silvia Moreno-Garcia – Mexican Gothic Susanna Clarke – Piranesi Susie Yang – White Ivy Tomasz Jedrowski – Swimming in the Dark Yaa Gyasi – Transcendent Kingdom |
                                                Aimee Nezhukumatathil – World of Wonders
Amy Stanley – Stranger in the Shogun's City Anna Wiener – Uncanny Valley Barack Obama – A Promised Land Barbara Demick – Eat the Buddha Becky Cooper – We Keep the Dead Close Ben Macintyre – Agent Sonya Catherine Cho – Inferno Cathy Park Hong – Minor Feelings Christina Lamb – Our Bodies, Their Battlefields Claudia Rankine – Just Us David Michaelis – Eleanor David Zucchino – Wilmington’s Lie Deirdre Mask – The Address Book Emma Copley Eisenberg – The Third Rainbow Girl Erik Larson – The Splendid and the Vile Francesca Wade – Square Haunting Heather Clark – Red Comet Helen Macdonald – Vesper Flights Ijeoma Oluo – Mediocre Isabel Wilkerson – Caste Jan Swafford – Mozart Jessica Goudeau – After the Last Border John Birdsall – The Man Who Ate Too Much Jonathan Bate – Radical Wordsworth Jonathan C. Slaght – Owls of the Eastern Ice Julian Barnes – The Man in the Red Coat Katie Mack – The End of Everything Kerri Arsenault – Mill Town Kim Ghattas – Black Wave Lacy Crawford – Notes on a Silencing Laila Lalami – Conditional Citizens Les Payne – The Dead Are Arising Mark Doty – What Is the Grass Martha Ackmann – These Fevered Days Masha Gessen – Surviving Autocracy Meredith Talusan – Fairest Merlin Sheldrake – Entangled Life Natasha Trethewey – Memorial Drive Paul Farmer – Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds Rebecca Giggs – Fathoms Rebecca Solnit – Recollections of My Nonexistence Rebecca Wragg Sykes – Kindred Robert Kolker – Hidden Valley Road Sonia Shah – The Next Great Migration Sudhir Hazareesingh – Black Spartacus Wayétu Moore – The Dragons, the Giant, the Women Zadie Smith – Intimations |
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The Octafinals take place in February and March. The fields will then be cut in half for the Quarterfinals.
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