Year-End Lists

PEN/Faulkner Award: Fiction 2025

[see also 2024 • 2023 • 2022 • 2021 • 2020]

Winner

• Small Rain
  Garth Greenwell

Finalists

• Ghostroots
  'Pemi Aguda
• Behind You Is the Sea
  Susan Muaddi Darraj
• James
  Percival Everett
• Colored Television
  Danzy Senna

Longlist

• The Mighty Red
  Louise Erdrich
• Creation Lake
  Rachel Kushner
• There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven

  Stories
  Ruben Reyes Jr.
• The History of Sound

  Stories
  Ben Shattuck
• Devil Is Fine
  John Vercher