Maine Readers' Choice Award Longlist

Given by Maine State Library

198 Works 366,007 Books 23,700 Reviews ½ 3.9
The Maine Readers' Choice Award, officially established in 2013 by the Maine State Library and the Maine Library Association, recognizes the best in adult fiction published in the United States show more the previous year. The aim of this award is to increase awareness and reading of literary fiction. The Maine Readers' Choice Award honors books that exhibit exceptional writing and a compelling story that encourages reading and conversation among individuals and in Maine’s communities.


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Stages:
All, Winner (3), Finalist (10), Shortlist (30), Longlist (198)
Years:
All, 2015 (25), 2014 (131), 2013 (42)

Longlist 198

WorkYear
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr2015
Euphoria by Lily King2015
Redeployment by Phil Klay2015
The High Divide by Lin Enger2015
An Untamed State by Roxane Gay2015
The Headmaster's Wife by Thomas Christopher Greene2015
Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson2015
Remember Me Like This by Bret Anthony Johnston2015
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd2015
The Remedy for Love by Bill Roorbach2015
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine2015
Shotgun Lovesongs by Nickolas Butler2015
Let Me Be Frank With You by Richard Ford2015
Hold the Dark: A Novel by William Giraldi2015
The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing by Mira Jacob2015
The Laughing Monsters by Denis Johnson2015
On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee2015
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami2015
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng2015
The Wind Is Not a River by Brian Payton2015
The Rise & Fall of Great Powers by Tom Rachman2015
Lila by Marilynne Robinson2015
The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan2015
The Free by Willy Vlautin2015
The Lobster Kings by Alexi Zentner2015
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt2014
Benediction by Kent Haruf2014
TransAtlantic by Colum McCann2014
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker2014
The Hired Man by Aminatta Forna2014
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger2014
Visitation Street by Ivy Pochoda2014
The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope by Rhonda Riley2014
Tenth of December: Stories by George Saunders2014
The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls2014
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie2014
Maya's Notebook by Isabel Allende2014
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson2014
A Guide to Being Born: Stories by Ramona Ausubel2014
Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw2014
Babayaga: A Novel by Toby Barlow2014
Lookaway, Lookaway by Wilton Barnhardt2014
Archangel: Fiction by Andrea Barrett2014
Lexicon by Max Barry2014
All the Land to Hold Us: A Novel by Rick Bass2014
The Light in the Ruins by Chris Bohjalian2014
Save Yourself: A Novel by Kelly Braffet2014
Palisades Park by Alan Brennert2014
Cinnamon and Gunpowder: A Novel by Eli Brown2014
The Longings of Wayward Girls by Karen Brown2014
The Painted Girls by Cathy Marie Buchanan2014
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo2014
Ten Things I've Learnt About Love by Sarah Butler2014
Margot by Jillian Cantor2014
An Englishwoman in New York by Anne-Marie Casey2014
The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton2014
Necessary Lies by Diane Chamberlain2014
My Education by Susan Choi2014
The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo2014
The Rathbones by Janice Clark2014
The Childhood of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee2014
The House Girl by Tara Conklin2014
Paris Was the Place by Susan Conley2014
Harvest by Jim Crace2014
Whistling Past the Graveyard by Susan Crandall2014
Mrs. Poe by Lynn Cullen2014
Children of the Jacaranda Tree by Sahar Delijani2014
The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls by Anton DiSclafani2014
His Wife Leaves Him by Stephen Dixon2014
The Burn Palace by Stephen Dobyns2014
Sweet Thunder by Ivan Doig2014
Pacific by Tom Drury2014
Dirty Love by Andre Dubus III2014
Blood & Beauty by Sarah Dunant2014
It's Not Love, It's Just Paris by Patricia Engel2014
The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan2014
Songs of Willow Frost by Jamie Ford2014
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler2014
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler2014
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman2014
& Sons by David Gilbert2014
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert2014
The Funeral Dress by Susan Gregg Gilmore2014
The Explanation for Everything by Lauren Grodstein2014
The Gravity of Birds by Tracy Guzeman2014
The Butterfly Sister by Amy Gail Hansen2014
Enon by Paul Harding2014
A Dual Inheritance: A Novel by Joanna Hershon2014
Telling the Bees by Peggy Hesketh2014
NOS4A2 by Joe Hill2014
You Are One of Them by Elliott Holt2014
The Obituary Writer by Ann Hood2014
A Guide for the Perplexed by Dara Horn2014
Og bjergene gav genlyd by Khaled Hosseini2014
The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards by Kristopher Jansma2014
The Dark Road: A Novel by Ma Jian2014
The Last Summer of the Camperdowns by Elizabeth Kelly2014
The Daughters of Mars by Thomas Keneally2014
Burial Rites by Hannah Kent2014
Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline2014
The Dinner by Herman Koch2014
The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner2014
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri2014
We Are Water by Wally Lamb2014
Is This Tomorrow by Caroline Leavitt2014
Bobcat and Other Stories by Rebecca Lee2014
The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow by Rita Leganski2014
Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem2014
The View from Penthouse B by Elinor Lipman2014
The Affairs of Others: A Novel by Amy Grace Loyd2014
Red Sky in Morning by Paul Lynch2014
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra2014
The Deep Whatsis by Peter Mattei2014
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride2014
Life after Life by Jill McCorkle2014
Someone by Alice McDermott2014
The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud2014
The Son by Philipp Meyer2014
The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty2014
White Dog Fell From the Sky by Eleanor Morse2014
Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge by Peter Orner2014
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki2014
The One-Way Bridge by Cathie Pelletier2014
Night Film by Marisha Pessl2014
Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon2014
Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish: A Novel by David Rakoff2014
The Cat by Edeet Ravel2014
The Other Typist by Suzanne Rindell2014
Sparta by Roxana Robinson2014
Call Me Zelda by Erika Robuck2014
All That Is by James Salter2014
Fin & Lady by Cathleen Schine2014
The Translator: A Novel by Nina Schuyler2014
Help for the Haunted by John Searles2014
The Woman Who Lost Her Soul by Bob Shacochis2014
Big Brother by Lionel Shriver2014
Fools: Stories by Joan Silber2014
The Execution of Noa P. Singleton by Elizabeth L. Silver2014
Mary Coin by Marisa Silver2014
The Silence and the Roar by Nihad Sirees2014
Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld2014
Brewster by Mark Slouka2014
Heart of Palm by Laura Lee Smith2014
Guests on Earth by Lee Smith2014
Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots by Jessica Soffer2014
The Burgess Boys by Elizabeth Strout2014
The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan2014
The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez2014
The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. by Adelle Waldman2014
The Blood of Heaven by Kent Wascom2014
Let Him Go by Larry Watson2014
The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer2014
The Maid's Version by Daniel Woodrell2014
Wash by Margaret Wrinkle2014
The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara2014
Snow Hunters by Paul Yoon2014
A Land More Kind than Home by Wiley Cash2013
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn2013
The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers2013
Canada by Richard Ford2013
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain2013
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce2013
The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan2013
Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan2013
The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman2013
Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter2013
At Last by Edward St. Aubyn2013
HHhH by Laurent Binet2013
The People of Forever Are Not Afraid by Shani Boianjiu2013
Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt2013
Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon2013
The Orchardist by Amanda Coplin2013
The Book of Jonas by Stephen Dau2013
This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Díaz2013
The Bartender's Tale by Ivan Doig2013
A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers2013
The Stockholm Octavo by Karen Engelmann2013
The Round House by Louise Erdrich2013
The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison2013
Absolution by Patrick Flanery2013
A Good American by Alex George2013
Heading Out to Wonderful by Robert Goolrick2013
Arcadia by Lauren Groff2013
The Dog Stars by Peter Heller2013
The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson2013
A Lady Cyclist's Guide to Kashgar by Suzanne Joinson2013
The Devil in Silver by Victor LaValle2013
The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis2013
Shine Shine Shine by Lydia Netzer2013
American Ghost: A Novel by Janis Owens2013
A Naked Singularity by Sergio De La Pava2013
In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner2013
Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple2013
The Art Forger by B. A. Shapiro2013
NW by Zadie Smith2013
By Blood by Ellen Ullman2013
How To Get Into the Twin Palms by Karolina Waclawiak2013
The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker2013

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