Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Shortlist
The Center for Fiction 2022 First Novel Prize was awarded to Noor Naga for her debut novel If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English. The award was announced at The Center for Fiction Annual Awards Benefit on December 6, 2022.
If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
By: Noor Naga
Narrated by: Amin El Gamal & Noor Naga
Length: 5 hours 7 minutes
Winner of the Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize, a lush experimental novel about love as a weapon of empire.
In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobrakheit meet at a café in Cairo. He was a photographer of the revolution, but now finds himself unemployed and addicted to cocaine, living... Read more
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Brown Girls
A Novel
By: Daphne Palasi Andreades
Narrated by: Tashi Thomas
Length: 4 hours 26 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“This vibrant novel, told in the collective 'we', translates perfectly to audio form, each chapter a poem, a spoken word song. Through the symphonic voices of a friend group of Brown girls growing up, sometimes leaving, sometimes returning to Queens, Andreades captures myriad truths of living as some shade of Brown, straddling the worlds of... Read more
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The School for Good Mothers
A Novel
By: Jessamine Chan
Narrated by: Catherine Ho
Length: 11 hours 56 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“This novel toggles between infuriating, terrifying, and comedic. An interesting study on what it means to be a woman and a mother. Extremely satisfied with an unexpected ending. Read more
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NSFW
A Novel
By: Isabel Kaplan
Narrated by: Stephanie Németh-Parker
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“NSFW is an eye-opening commentary on sexism in the workplace. It shows the harsh realities that women not only deal with but have come to accept as a fact of life. It is raw, emotional, and at times heartbreaking with just a touch of humor thrown in for balance. Read more
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Big Girl
A Novel
By: Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
Length: 12 hours 4 minutes
Exquisitely compassionate and witty, Big Girl traces the intergenerational hungers and desires of Black womanhood, as told through the unforgettable voice of Malaya Clondon.
In her highly anticipated debut novel, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan explores the perils—and undeniable beauty—of insatiable longing.
Growing up in a rapidly changing Harlem,... Read more
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The Immortal King Rao
By: Vauhini Vara
Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
Length: 15 hours 2 minutes
In an Indian village in the 1950s, a precocious child is born into a family of Dalit coconut farmers. King Rao will grow up to be the most accomplished tech CEO in the world and, eventually, the leader of a global, corporate-led government.
In a future in which the world is run by the Board of Corporations, King’s daughter, Athena, reckons with... Read more
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