9 Penguin Random House Titles Made The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize List!

Longlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize

An electric debut novel about the daughter of Afghan refugees and her year of nightclubs, bad romance, and self-discovery—a portrait of the artist as a young woman set in a Berlin that can’t escape its history.

Longlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize

A strange and brilliant teenager’s first panic attacks lead him down the rabbit hole in this wild, highly anticipated debut novel from one of our most distinctive literary minds.

Longlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize

A woman tries to heal old wounds and make sense of the world the only way she knows how—through letters—in this charming, laugh out loud debut novel about a life fully lived.

Longlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize

When a young girl goes missing, the ghosts of the past collide with her family’s secrets in a mesmerizing Native American Southern Gothic.

Longlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize

Cross the jet bridge with Linda, a frequent flyer with a dangerous obsession, in this hilarious and provocative debut novel by the acclaimed author of Out There.

Longlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize

A twisty gothic debut about two former best friends reconnecting at a secluded house deep in the swamplands of Florida.

Longlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize

A Punjabi American lawyer at a mysterious new federal intelligence agency fights to keep his career, marriage, and morality intact in this gripping post-9/11 drama from a thrilling new voice.

Longlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize

From a dazzling new talent, the story of a newly divorced young mother forced to reckon with the secrets of her own childhood when she brings her daughters back to the big house where she was raised.

Longlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize

An utterly transporting debut novel about the unexpected relationship between an artist and the 130-year-old woman she cares for—two of the last people living in a flooded San Francisco of the future, the home neither is ready to leave.