How many books are on 2026 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Finalists?

2026 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Finalists has 5 books, published between 2023 and 2025.

Which book on 2026 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Finalists is the most popular?

Heart the Lover by Lily King is the most-rated book on the list, with 24 ratings and a 4.5 average.

Start with Heart the Lover, Dominion and The Sisters: the three most-rated books on the list.

The books on this list are tagged Fiction, Cultural Heritage Fiction, Short Stories Anthologies and Hispanic American Literature & Fiction.

§Personal Collection

The five finalists for the 2026 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, with the winning story collection first.

Mahreen Sohail · 2025

A story collection about ordinary moral failure, intimate damage, and the small decisions that reveal a life’s larger fractures.

Addie E. Citchens · 2025

A debut whose force comes from family, place, faith, and the social power people inherit or seize.

Quiara Alegría Hudes · 2025

A literary novel about heat in every register: desire, anger, art, family pressure, and the moment things become impossible to cool.

Books: 5
Published: 2023–2025
Average rating: 4.1 / 5 across 46 ratings
Genres: Fiction, Cultural Heritage Fiction, Short Stories Anthologies, Hispanic American Literature & Fiction

1Heart the Lover · Lily King
A polished literary love story about formative relationships, remembered intensity, and how desire changes shape over time.
2Dominion · Addie E. Citchens
A debut whose force comes from family, place, faith, and the social power people inherit or seize.
3The Sisters · Jonas Hassen Khemiri
A multilingual, multi-perspective family novel about sisterhood, migration, memory, and the stories siblings do and do not share.