Year-End Lists

PEN/Faulkner Award: Fiction 2021

Winner

• The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
  Deesha Philyaw

Finalists

• Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear
  Matthew Salesses
• The Knockout Queen
  Rufi Thorpe
• Mother Daughter Widow Wife
  Rosanne Wasserman
• Scattered Lights
  Steve Wiegenstein

Longlist

• Bestiary
  K-Ming Chang
• Dear Ann
  Bobbie Ann Mason
• Nine Shiny Objects
  Brian Castleberry
• The Office of Historical Corrections
  Danielle Evans
• Transcendent Kingdom
  Yaa Gyasi