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The Silver Book by Olivia LaingFew and Far Between by Jan CarsonSon of Nobody by Yann MartelThe Palm House by Gwendoline RileyThis, My Second Life by Patrick Charnley
Booker Prize Eligible 2026
205 books — 110 voters
Struck by Susanna Bissoli
Linden Editions
3 books — 2 voters

Death and the Gardener by Georgi GospodinovSympathy Tower Tokyo by Rie QudanGood and Evil and Other Stories by Samanta SchweblinSakina’s Kiss by Vivek Shanbhag
International Booker Prize 2026: Eligible Books
189 books — 92 voters
Three Days in June by Anne TylerDream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Mighty Red by Louise ErdrichWhat a Way to Go by Bella MackieBlue Sisters by Coco Mellors
Women's Prize for Fiction 2025 Eligible Books
143 books — 39 voters

Dusk by Robbie ArnottTime of the Child by Niall WilliamsJuice by Tim WintonThe Boy from the Sea by Garrett CarrNesting by Roisín O'Donnell
Booker Prize Eligible 2025
175 books — 173 voters
Time of the Flies by Claudia PiñeiroHungry for What by María BastarósThe Mortal and Immortal Life of the Girl from Milan by Domenico StarnoneChildish Literature by Alejandro ZambraThe Paris Trilogy by Colombe Schneck
International Booker Prize 2025: Eligible Books
179 books — 76 voters

Kairos by Jenny ErpenbeckMater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-yong
International Booker Prize 2024: Eligible Books
170 books — 79 voters
Orbital by Samantha HarveyBaumgartner by Paul AusterThis Plague of Souls by Mike McCormackDay by Michael CunninghamLet Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward
Booker Prize Eligible 2024
195 books — 180 voters

Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-BrenyahIn Memoriam by Alice WinnThe New Life by Tom CreweOld God's Time by Sebastian BarryShy by Max Porter
Booker Prize Eligible 2023
166 books — 209 voters
Trust by Hernan DiazOur Wives Under the Sea by Julia ArmfieldSea of Tranquility by Emily St. John MandelDelphi by Clare PollardVery Cold People by Sarah Manguso
Booker Prize Eligible 2022
160 books — 217 voters

The Performance by Claire ThomasBeasts of a Little Land by Juhea KimThe School for Good Mothers by Jessamine ChanBrown Girls by Daphne Palasi AndreadesWahala by Nikki May
Women's Prize for Fiction 2022 Eligible Books
91 books — 86 voters
Piranesi by Susanna ClarkeTranscendent Kingdom by Yaa GyasiSisters by Daisy JohnsonThe Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke EmeziThe Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Women's Prize for Fiction 2021 Eligible Books
84 books — 84 voters

Red at the Bone by Jacqueline WoodsonThe Illness Lesson by Clare BeamsRabbits For Food by Binnie KirshenbaumThe Mercies by Kiran Millwood HargraveStarling Days by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan
Women's Prize for Fiction 2020 Eligible Books
131 books — 62 voters
A Thousand Moons by Sebastian BarryThe Illness Lesson by Clare BeamsHamnet by Maggie O'FarrellOlive, Again by Elizabeth StroutThe Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Booker Prize Eligible 2020
160 books — 109 voters

Lanny by Max PorterThe Golden State by Lydia Kiesling
Man Booker Prize Eligible 2019
175 books — 186 voters
Four Russian Short Stories by Gaito GazdanovThree Japanese Short Stories by Ryūnosuke AkutagawaFood by Gertrude Stein
Penguin Modern
50 books — 51 voters

The Thirst by Jo Nesbø
2017 Crime Books You're Excited For!
164 books — 488 voters