Aviaries, Zuzana Brabcova, Twisted Spoon Press

Children of God, David H. Lynn, Braddock Avenue Books

Clover Blue, Eldonna Edwards, Kensington Publishing Corp.

The Color Inside a Melon, John Domoni, Dzanc Books

Country Place, Ann Petry, Northwestern University Press

Empty Words, Mario Levrero, Coffee House Press

Fishing the Jumps, Lamar Herrin, University Press of Kentucky

From the Shadows, Juan Jose Millas, Bellevue Literary Press

Half-Burnt, Peter Grandbois, Spuyten Duyvil Publishing

Horsebuggy, Joshua Kornreich, Sagging Meniscus

The Maze of Transparencies, Karen An-hwei Lee, Ellipsis Press

No Common War, Luke Salisbury, Black Heron Press

One Another, Monique Schwitter, Persea Books

The Rapture Index: A Suburban Bestiary, Molly Reid, BOA Editions Ltd.

The Remainder, Alia Trabucco Zeran, Coffee House Press

The Scottish Book of the Dead, Gavin Broom, Island City Publishing

The Shaman of Turtle Valley, Clifford Garstang, Braddock Avenue Books

Someday Everything Will All Make Sense, Carol LaHines, Adelaide Books

Something Like the End, Ashley Morrow Hermsmeier, Black Lawrence Press

Stella Maris: and other Key West Stories, Michael Carroll, Turtle Point Press

This Side of Water, Maureen Pilkington, Regal House Publishing

Vintage 1954, Antoine Laurain, Gallic Books

You Could Stop It Here, Stacy Austin Egan, [PANK] Books