The National Book Foundation has announced the longlists for the National Book Awards.

Percival Everett’s “James” is a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction.

Percival Everett’s “James” is up for another literary award.

Alice McDermott’s novel about military wives in Vietnam, “Absolution,” and the Jamel Brinkley story collection “Witness” are among the finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award.

The honors keep coming in for fiction writer-poet Percival Everett.

Novelist Gayl Jones is a fiction nominee for the National Book Award, the rare established name on a list of 10 that features eight debut works of fiction.

Anticipation has been growing all year for one of the fall’s likeliest bestsellers, Colleen Hoover’s “It Starts With Us.”.