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

Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs (Viking Books)
Kolson Uitehed, The Underground Railroad (Doubleday)
Jacqueline Woodson, Another Brooklyn (Amistad)
Kris Bachelder, The Throwback Special (W.W. Norton & Co.)
Elizabeth McKenzie, The Portable Veblen (Penguin Press)
Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone (Little Brown & Co.)