FICTION LONG LIST
Judged by Whiting Award winner Alexander Chee, University of Chicago Professor Richard So, and novelist and former Ploughshares editor Don Lee.
- A Good Fall, Ha Jin (Pantheon)
- The Vagrants: A Novel, Yiyun Li (Random House)
- Picking Bones from Ash: A Novel, Marie Mitsuki Mockett (Graywolf)
- In Other Rooms, Other Wonders, Daniyal Mueenuddin (WW Norton & Company)
- Miles from Nowhere, Nami Mun (Riverhead)
- Water Ghosts, Shawna Yang Ryan (Penguin)
- Once the Shore: Stories, Paul Yoon (Sarabande)
POETRY LONG LIST
Judged by Guggenheim Fellow John Yau, American Book Award winner Sesshu Foster, and Philippines’ National Book Award winner Eileen Tabios.
- The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems, Agha Shahid Ali (WW Norton & Company)
- Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities, Kazim Ali (Wesleyan University Press)
- The Heart's Traffic, Ching-in Chen (Red Hen Press)
- Bird Eating Bird: Poems (National Poetry Series), Kristin Naca (Harper Perennial)
- The Ginkgo Light, Arthur Sze (Copper Canyon)
- Poems of the Black Object, Ronaldo V. Wilson (FuturePoem Books)
NON-FICTION LONG LIST
Judged by Vassar Professor Hua Hsu, Wall Street Journal editor S. Mitra Kalita, and novelist and former AAWW Board President Marie Lee.
- Children of the Dust, Ali Eteraz (HarperOne)
- Leaving India: My Family's Journey from Five Villages to Five Continents, Minal Hajratwala (HoughtonMifflinHarcourt)
- Lucky Girl, Mei-Ling Hopgood (Algonquin Books)
- Fugitive Visions: An Adoptee's Return to Korea, Jane Jeong Trenka (Graywolf Press)
- In Hanuman's Hands: A Memoir, Cheeni Rao (HarperOne)
- Memories of Muhammad: Why the Prophet Matters, Omid Safi (HarperOne)
- I Love Yous Are for White People: A Memoir, Lac Su (HarperCollins-Perennial)
- American Chinatown: A People's History of Five Neighborhoods, Bonnie Tsui (Free Press)