2025 First Novel Prize Shortlist

The Center for Fiction 2025 First Novel Prize Shortlist! "The First Novel Prize honors the best debut novel of the year and supports emerging voices in fiction."

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created by Shimmy

last updated September, 2025

7 books

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Shubha Sunder

Liquid: A Love Story

Mariam Rahmani

Natch

Darrell Kinsey

Ibis

Justin Haynes

The Devil Three Times

Rickey Fayne

Loca

Alejandro Heredia

We Pretty Pieces of Flesh

Colwill Brown

2025 First Novel Prize Shortlist

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