Over the last few days the National Book Awards have been announcing their longlists in categories such as Poetry, Non Fiction and Young Adult. Today was the turn of fiction. Here are the ten nominees:

Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman (Grove Press/ Grove/Atlantic)

Molly Antopol, The UnAmericans (W. W. Norton & Company)

John Darnielle, Wolf in White Van (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See (Scribner/ Simon & Schuster)

Phil Klay, Redeployment (The Penguin Press/ Penguin Group (USA))

Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven (Alfred A. Knopf/ Random House)

Elizabeth McCracken, Thunderstruck & Other Stories (The Dial Press/ Random House)

Richard Powers, Orfeo (W.W. Norton & Company)

Marilynne Robinson, Lila (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Jane Smiley, Some Luck (Alfred A. Knopf/ Random House)

I haven’t read any of the books on the longlist, though I am aware of the Powers and Phil Klay’s Redeployment which received quite a bit of hype when it was published earlier this year. I’ve also heard very good things about Molly Antopol’s short story collection.

Also, for those expecting that opening the Man Booker up to US works would result in a large overlap between the Man Booker and NBA longlist, today’s announcement shows that different judges, different tastes. Only Orfeo by Richard Powers appears on both lists.

My intention is to read the shortlist when it’s announced in the middle of October.