Binghamton University’s John Gardner Fiction Award Finalists for 2015 (in alphabetical order):

Ishmael Beah, Radiance of Tomorrow (Sarah Crichton Books)

Melanie Bishop, My So-Called Ruined Life (Torrey House Press)

Matthew Thomas, We Are Not Ourselves (Simon & Schuster)

Marilynne Robinson, Lila (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

See info on winner Natalie S. Harnett here. Her winning book is The Hollow Ground.