| Title | Author | Shortlisted |
|---|
| Normal People | Sally Rooney | |
| Milkman | Anna Burns | |
| Solar Bones | Mike McCormack | |
| The Stone Sky | N. K. Jemisin | |
| The Friend | Sigrid Nunez | |
| The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke | Jeffrey C. Stewart | |
| Whereas | Layli Long Soldier | |
| Less | Andrew Sean Greer | |
| Home Fire | Kamila Shamsie | |
| Torto Arado | Itamar Vieira Junior | |
| Câmera Lenta | Marília Garcia | |
| O clube dos jardineiros de fumaça | Carol Bensimon | |
| From a Low and Quiet Sea | Donal Ryan | |
| The Idiot | Elif Batuman | |
| Washington Black | Esi Edugyan | |
| Everything Under | Daisy Johnson | |
| The Mars Room | Rachel Kushner | |
| The Overstory | Richard Powers | |
| The Long Take | Robin Robertson | |
| Snap | Belinda Bauer | |
| Sabrina | Nick Drnaso | |
| In Our Mad And Furious City | Guy Gunaratne | |
| The Water Cure | Sophie Mackintosh | |
| Warlight | Michael Ondaatje | |
| The Silence of the Girls | Pat Barker | |
| The Italian Teacher | Tom Rachman | |
| Baba Dunja's Last Love | Alina Bronsky | |
| The Transmigration of Bodies | Yuri Herrera | |
| The Unseen | Roy Jacobsen | |
| Human Acts | Han Kang | |
| The Lesser Bohemians | Eimear McBride | |
| Distant Light | Antonio Moresco | |
| Ladivine | Marie NDiaye | |
| The Woman Next Door | Yewande Omotoso | |
| My Name Is Lucy Barton | Elizabeth Strout | |
| The Collapsing Empire | John Scalzi | |
| New York 2140 | Kim Stanley Robinson | |
| Provenance | Ann Leckie | |
| Raven Stratagem | Yoon Ha Lee | |
| Six Wakes | Mur Lafferty | |
| A Lucky Man | Jamel Brinkley | |
| Florida | Lauren Groff | |
| Where the Dead Sit Talking | Brandon Hobson | |
| The Great Believers | Rebecca Makkai | |
| The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation | Colin G. Calloway | |
| American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic | Victoria Johnson | |
| Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth | Sarah Smarsh | |
| We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights | Adam Winkler | |
| We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy | Ta-Nehisi Coates | |
| White Tears | Hari Kunzru | |
| The Changeling | Victor LaValle | |
| Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News | Kevin Young | |
| In the Distance | Hernan Diaz | |
| The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock | Imogen Hermes Gowar | |
| Sight | Jessie Greengrass | |
| When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife | Meena Kandasamy | |
| Sing, Unburied, Sing | Jesmyn Ward | |