National Book Award Fiction Longlist 2016
The 2016 National Book Award Fiction Longlist titles available in digital audio.
The Underground Railroad (Oprah's Book Club)
A Novel
By Colson Whitehead
Narrated by Bahni Turpin / 10 hours 43 minutes
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestseller from Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially... Read More »
Imagine Me Gone
By Adam Haslett
Narrated by Ellen Archer / 10 hours 52 minutes
FINALIST for the PULITZER PRIZE
LONG-LISTED for the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
WINNER of the LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE
FINALIST for the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
FINALIST for the KIRKUS PRIZE
LONG-LISTED for the ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL
TOP 10 NOVELS OF THE YEAR -- TIME, Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, BBC, Newsday
ONE OF... Read More »
The Association of Small Bombs
By Karan Mahajan
Narrated by Neil Shah / 9 hours 12 minutes
The Association of Small Bombs is an expansive and deeply humane novel that is at once groundbreaking in empathy, dazzling in acuity, and ambitious in scope.When brothers Tushar and Nakul Khurana, two Delhi schoolboys, pick up their family’s television at a repair shop with their friend Mansoor Ahmed one day in 1996, disaster strikes without... Read More »
Another Brooklyn
A Novel
By Jacqueline Woodson
Narrated by Robin Miles / 2 hours 43 minutes
Longlisted for the National Book Award
New York Times Bestseller
The acclaimed New York Times bestselling and National Book Award—winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming delivers her first adult novel in twenty years.
Running into a long-ago friend sets memory from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where... Read More »
News of the World
A Novel
By Paulette Jiles
Narrated by Grover Gardner / 5 hours 58 minutes
National Book Award Finalist—Fiction
It is 1870 and Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence.
In Wichita Falls, he is offered a... Read More »