We’re excited to announce the finalists for the 2024 Big Other Book Award for Fiction. The winner will be announced at the 2024 Big Other Book Awards Ceremony, which will be aired virtually (date and time to be announced).

Without further ado, here are the finalists for the 2024 Big Other Book Award for Fiction:

Alisa Alering’s Smothermoss (Tin House)

Maureen Alsop’s Today Yesterday After My Death (Erratum Press)

Matthew Baker’s The Sentence (Dzanc Books)

Erin Brubacher’s These Songs I Know by Heart (Book*hug Press)

Vincent Czyz’s Sun Eye Moon Eye (Spuyten Duyvil)

Sergio de la Pava’s Every Arc Bends Its Radian (Simon & Schuster)

Steven Dunn and Katie Jean Shinkle’s Tannery Bay (FC2)

Mike Fu’s Masquerade (Tin House)

Amina Gautier’s The Best That You Can Do (Soft Skull Press)

Robert Kloss’s The Genocide House (Bridge Books)

Eric Lindley and Joe Milazzo’s Words in Danger of Falling Out of the Vocabulary (Galileo Press)

Norman Lock’s The Caricaturist (Bellevue Literary Press)

Ian S. Maloney’s South Brooklyn Exterminating (Spuyten Duyvil)

Poupeh Missaghi’s Sound Museum (Coffee House Press)

Anna Noyes’s The Blue Maiden (Grove Press)

Lance Olsen’s Absolute Away (Dzanc Books)

Nicolette Polek’s Bitter Water Opera (Graywolf Press)

James Reich’s Skinship (Anti-Oedipus Press)

Danzy Senna’s Colored Television (Riverhead Books)

Jacob Wren’s Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim (Book*hug Press)

(Image: Albert Oehlen’s Verweis (2006))