Books 2021

TitleAuthorShortlisted
Unsettled GroundClaire Fuller
Costa Book Award for Novel winner
Women's Prize for Fiction shortlisted
PiranesiSusanna Clarke
Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
Women's Prize for Fiction winner
The PromiseDamon Galgut
Booker Prize for Fiction winner
Lost Children ArchiveValeria Luiselli
International Dublin Literary Award winner
Network EffectMartha Wells
Hugo Award for Best Novel winner
Hell of a BookJason Mott
National Book Award for Fiction winner
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family KeepsakeTiya Miles
National Book Award for Nonfiction winner
Be Holding: A PoemRoss Gay
PEN/Jean Stein Book Award winner
The Night WatchmanLouise Erdrich
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner
As Pessoas InvisíveisJosé Carlos Barros
Prémio LeYa winner
O avesso da peleJeferson Tenório
Prêmio Jabuti Romance Literário winner
No One Is Talking About ThisPatricia Lockwood
Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Women's Prize for Fiction shortlisted
The Fortune MenNadifa Mohamed
Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Costa Book Award for Novel shortlisted
A Passage NorthAnuk Arudpragasam
Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
BewildermentRichard Powers
Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Great CircleMaggie Shipstead
Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Second PlaceRachel Cusk
Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
The Sweetness of WaterNathan Harris
Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Klara and the SunKazuo Ishiguro
Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
An IslandKaren Jennings
Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
A Town Called SolaceMary Lawson
Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
China RoomSunjeev Sahota
Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Light PerpetualFrancis Spufford
Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
The High HouseJessie Greengrass
Costa Book Award for Novel shortlisted
The Island of Missing TreesElif Shafak
Costa Book Award for Novel shortlisted
Girl, Woman, OtherBernardine Evaristo
International Dublin Literary Award shortlisted
ApeirogonColum McCann
International Dublin Literary Award shortlisted
Hurricane SeasonFernanda Melchor
International Dublin Literary Award shortlisted
On Earth We're Briefly GorgeousOcean Vuong
International Dublin Literary Award shortlisted
The Nickel BoysColson Whitehead
International Dublin Literary Award shortlisted
Black SunRebecca Roanhorse
Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
The City We BecameN. K. Jemisin
Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
Harrow the NinthTamsyn Muir
Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
The Relentless MoonMary Robinette Kowal
Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
Cloud Cuckoo LandAnthony Doerr
National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
MatrixLauren Groff
National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
ZorrieLaird Hunt
National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
The ProphetsRobert Jones Jr.
National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black PerformanceHanif Abdurraqib
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Borderland ApocryphaAnthony Cody
PEN/Jean Stein Book Award shortlisted
The Death of Vivek OjiAkwaeke Emezi
PEN/Jean Stein Book Award shortlisted
The Freezer DoorMattilda Bernstein Sycamore
PEN/Jean Stein Book Award shortlisted
Sharks in the Time of Saviors: A NovelKawai Strong Washburn
PEN/Jean Stein Book Award shortlisted
A Registry of My Passage Upon the EarthDaniel Mason
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction shortlisted
TelephonePercival Everett
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction shortlisted
The Vanishing HalfBrit Bennett
Women's Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Transcendent KingdomYaa Gyasi
Women's Prize for Fiction shortlisted
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her HouseCherie Jones
Women's Prize for Fiction shortlisted