This year’s nominees of the prestigious National Book Foundation’s National Book Awards in Fiction present selected readings.

Karan Mahajan, La Asociación de Pequeñas Bombas (Viking Books)
Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad (Doubleday)
Jacqueline Woodson, Another Brooklyn (Amistad)
Chris Bachelder, The Throwback Special (W.W. Norton & Co.)
Elizabeth McKenzie, The Portable Veblen (Penguin Press)
Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone (Little Brown & Co.)