| Title | Author | Shortlisted |
|---|
| Torto Arado | Itamar Vieira Junior | |
| The Underground Railroad | Colson Whitehead | |
| James | Percival Everett | |
| Red Mars | Kim Stanley Robinson | |
| Milkman | Anna Burns | |
| The Known World | Edward P. Jones | |
| How to Be Both | Ali Smith | |
| Bring Up the Bodies | Hilary Mantel | |
| [d] | John Leonard Clive | |
| The Shipping News | E. Annie Proulx | |
| Let the Great World Spin | Colum McCann | |
| The Color Purple | Alice Walker | |
| Cinzas do norte | Milton Hatoum | |
| Rabbit is Rich | John Updike | |
| The Snow Leopard | Peter Matthiessen | |
| The Great Fire | Shirley Hazzard | |
| Home Fire | Kamila Shamsie | |
| The Accidental | Ali Smith | |
| Reservoir 13 | Jon McGregor | |
| The Executioner's Song | Norman Mailer | |
| Last Orders | Graham Swift | |
| The Overstory | Richard Powers | |
| So Long, See You Tomorrow | William Maxwell | |
| Home | Marilynne Robinson | |
| Wolf Hall | Hilary Mantel | |
| The Corrections | Jonathan Franzen | |
| Piranesi | Susanna Clarke | |
| Quarantine | Jim Crace | |
| The Blind Assassin | Margaret Atwood | |
| The Satanic Verses | Salman Rushdie | |
| Remembering Babylon | David Malouf | |
| The Moor's Last Sigh | Salman Rushdie | |
| The Ghost Road | Pat Barker | |
| English Passengers | Matthew Kneale | |
| True History of the Kelly Gang | Peter Carey | |
| Every Man for Himself | Beryl Bainbridge | |
| The Master | Colm Tóibín | |
| Spies | Michael Frayn | |
| Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell | Susanna Clarke | |
| The Line of Beauty | Alan Hollinghurst | |
| On Beauty | Zadie Smith | |
| The Inheritance of Loss | Kiran Desai | |
| The Secret Scripture | Sebastian Barry | |
| The Sense of an Ending | Julian Barnes | |
| Harvest | Jim Crace | |
| The Narrow Road to the Deep North | Richard Flanagan | |
| A Brief History of Seven Killings | Marlon James | |
| Lincoln in the Bardo | George Saunders | |
| Shuggie Bain | Douglas Stuart | |
| The Echo Maker | Richard Powers | |
| Lost Children Archive | Valeria Luiselli | |
| Days Without End | Sebastian Barry | |
| Solar Bones | Mike McCormack | |
| Normal People | Sally Rooney | |
| Prophet Song | Paul Lynch | |
| The Safekeep | Yael van der Wouden | |
| Small Island | Andrea Levy | |
| The Road Home | Rose Tremain | |
| An Artist of the Floating World | Kazuo Ishiguro | |
| The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | Mark Haddon | |
| Unsettled Ground | Claire Fuller | |
| Pure | Andrew Miller | |
| Life after Life | Kate Atkinson | |
| The Hours | Michael Cunningham | |
| Middlesex | Jeffrey Eugenides | |
| Bel Canto | Ann Patchett | |
| Charming Billy | Alice McDermott | |
| The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | Junot Díaz | |
| Tree of Smoke | Denis Johnson | |
| The Lacuna | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| A Visit from the Goon Squad | Jennifer Egan | |
| The Sympathizer | Viet Thanh Nguyen | |
| An American Marriage | Tayari Jones | |
| The Friend | Sigrid Nunez | |
| The Nickel Boys | Colson Whitehead | |
| Dune World | Frank Herbert | |
| The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress | Robert A. Heinlein | |
| Hominids | Robert J. Sawyer | |
| The Stories of John Cheever | John Cheever | |
| The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty | Eudora Welty | |
| The World According to Garp | John Irving | |
| Foreign Affairs | Alison Lurie | |
| A Summons to Memphis | Peter Taylor | |
| Beloved | Toni Morrison | |
| Breathing Lessons | Anne Tyler | |
| Sabbath's Theater | Philip Roth | |
| Waiting | Ha Jin | |
| Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer | Steven Millhauser | |
| Sing, Unburied, Sing | Jesmyn Ward | |
| The Tiger's Wife | Téa Obreht | |
| All the Light We Cannot See | Anthony Doerr | |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times | James R. Mellow | |
| Naming Names | Victor S. Navasky | |
| National Defense | James Fallows | |
| Utopian Thought in the Western World | Frank E. Manuel | |
| The Stone Diaries | Carol Shields | |
| The Goldfinch | Donna Tartt | |
| Leite Derramado | Chico Buarque | |
| Passageiro do Fim do Dia | Rubens Figueiredo | |
| The Bird of Night | Susan Hill | |
| The Children of Dynmouth | William Trevor | |
| A Little Life | Hanya Yanagihara | |
| The Green Road | Anne Enright | |
| The Silence of the Girls | Pat Barker | |
| A Flag for Sunrise | Robert Stone | |
| Underworld | Don DeLillo | |
| Girl, Woman, Other | Bernardine Evaristo | |
| Heligoland | Shena Mackay | |
| Lila | Marilynne Robinson | |
| The Lowland | Jhumpa Lahiri | |
| Shalimar the Clown | Salman Rushdie | |
| Alias Grace | Margaret Atwood | |
| The Trees | Percival Everett | |
| Great House | Nicole Krauss | |
| Frankie & Stankie | Barbara Trapido | |
| Purple Hibiscus | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| The Island of Missing Trees | Elif Shafak | |
| Atonement | Ian McEwan | |
| Blonde | Joyce Carol Oates | |
| The Story of Lucy Gault | William Trevor | |
| Family Matters | Rohinton Mistry | |
| All Fours | Miranda July | |
| The Great Believers | Rebecca Makkai | |
| Paradise | Toni Morrison | |
| The White Family | Maggie Gee | |
| The Myth of the Machine: Technics and Human Development | Lewis Mumford | |
| Hotel World | Ali Smith | |
| The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. II, Fredericksburg to Meridian | Shelby Foote | |
| American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur | William Manchester | |
| The Buddha in the Attic | Julie Otsuka | |
| The Memory of Love | Aminatta Forna | |
| The Blackwater Lightship | Colm Tóibín | |
| Unless | Carol Shields | |
| Americanah | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | |
| Burial Rites | Hannah Kent | |
| The Bay of Noon | Shirley Hazzard | |
| There There | Tommy Orange | |
| Peter the Great: His Life and World | Robert K. Massie | |
| Cloud Cuckoo Land | Anthony Doerr | |
| Jefferson and His Time: The Sage of Monticello | Dumas Malone | |
| The Death of Vivek Oji | Akwaeke Emezi | |
| Grant: A Biography | William S. McFeely | |
| Fred & Edie | Jill Dawson | |
| The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power | Robert A. Caro | |
| Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| The Autograph Man | Zadie Smith | |
| The Powers That Be | David Halberstam | |
| Grace Notes | Bernard MacLaverty | |
| The Transit of Venus | Shirley Hazzard | |
| The Second Coming | Walker Percy | |
| A Fine Balance | Rohinton Mistry | |
| Oxygen | Andrew Miller | |
| Our Fathers | Andrew O'Hagan | |
| The Keepers of Truth | Michael Collins | |
| Housekeeping | Marilynne Robinson | |
| 1587, a Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline | Ray Huang | |
| The Ghost Writer | Philip Roth | |
| Endless Love | Scott Spencer | |
| Slow Man | J. M. Coetzee | |
| The Reluctant Fundamentalist | Mohsin Hamid | |
| Beyond Black | Hilary Mantel | |
| A Long Long Way | Sebastian Barry | |
| Black Swan Green | David Mitchell | |
| Animal's People | Indra Sinha | |
| A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian | Marina Lewycka | |
| Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant | Anne Tyler | |
| The Night Watch | Sarah Waters | |
| Brooklyn | Colm Tóibín | |
| Skippy Dies | Paul Murray | |
| Room | Emma Donoghue | |
| Love and Summer | William Trevor | |
| The Garden of Evening Mists | Tan Twan Eng | |
| The Wilderness | Samantha Harvey | |
| Half-Blood Blues | Esi Edugyan | |
| Munich: The Price of Peace | Telford Taylor | |
| Arthur & George | Julian Barnes | |
| Netherland | Joseph O'Neil | |
| Whites | Norman Rush | |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932–1945 | Robert Dallek | |
| Headlong | Michael Frayn | |
| Fingersmith | Sarah Waters | |
| TransAtlantic | Colum McCann | |
| The Moor’s Account | Laila Lalami | |
| The Lives of Others | Neel Mukherjee | |
| Do Not Say We Have Nothing | Madeleine Thien | |
| My Name Is Lucy Barton | Elizabeth Strout | |
| The Spinning Heart | Donal Ryan | |
| That Night | Alice McDermott | |
| A Spool of Blue Thread | Anne Tyler | |
| Exit West | Mohsin Hamid | |
| Oryx and Crake | Margaret Atwood | |
| My Sister, the Serial Killer | Oyinkan Braithwaite | |
| History of Wolves | Emily Fridlund | |
| The Collected Stories | Grace Paley | |
| Washington Black | Esi Edugyan | |
| When We Were Orphans | Kazuo Ishiguro | |
| From a Low and Quiet Sea | Donal Ryan | |
| The Fortune Men | Nadifa Mohamed | |
| In Every Face I Meet | Justin Cartwright | |
| Apeirogon | Colum McCann | |
| Maps for Lost Lovers | Nadeem Aslam | |
| The Mirror & the Light | Hilary Mantel | |
| The Good Doctor | Damon Galgut | |
| No One Is Talking About This | Patricia Lockwood | |
| The March | E. L. Doctorow | |
| Any Human Heart | William Boyd | |
| The Poisonwood Bible | Barbara Kingsolver | |
| The Puttermesser Papers | Cynthia Ozick | |
| Old God's Time | Sebastian Barry | |
| My Friends | Hisham Matar | |
| If I Survive You | Jonathan Escoffery | |
| Headshot | Rita Bullwinkel | |
| Bitter Fruit | Achmat Dangor | |
| You Are Not a Stranger Here | Adam Haslett | |
| Evidence of Things Unseen | Marianne Wiggins | |
| Great Circle | Maggie Shipstead | |
| This Other Eden | Paul Harding | |
| The Siege | Helen Dunmore | |
| In Other Rooms, Other Wonders | Daniyal Mueenuddin | |
| Parrot and Olivier in America | Peter Carey | |
| The Sport of Kings | C. E. Morgan | |
| The Idiot | Elif Batuman | |
| Enduring Love | Ian McEwan | |