2019 shortlist
- Young Adult
Me Mam, Me Dad, Me.
By Malcolm Duffy
- Designer: Jon Gray
- Illustrator: Jessie Price
- Art Director: Jessie Price
- Imprint: Zephyr
Floored
By Various
- Designer: Rachel Vale
- Illustrator: Laura Callaghan
- Imprint: Macmillan Children's Books
Glass Town Wars
By Celia Rees
- Designer: Anna Morrison
- Imprint: Pushkin Children's
For Every One
By Jason Reynolds
- Designer: Marssaié Jordan
- Illustrator: Yinka Ilori
- Imprint: Knights Of / 404 Ink
On a Scale of One to Ten
By Ceylan Scott
- Designer: Helen Crawford-White
- Illustrator: Helen Crawford-White
- Imprint: Chicken House Books
Winner Run Riot
By Nikesh Shukla
- Designer: Michelle Brackenborough
- Imprint: Hodder Children's Books, Hachette Children's Group
- Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Rosewater
By Tade Thompson
- Designer: Charlotte Stroomer
- Imprint: Orbit
Red Birds
By Mohammed Hanif
- Designer: Gregg Heinimann
- Illustrator: Greg Heinimann
- Imprint: Bloomsbury
The Book of Joan
By Lidia Yuknavitch
- Designer: Rafi Romaya
- Illustrator: Florian Schommer
- Art Director: Rafi Romaya
- Imprint: Canongate
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Circe
By Madeline Miller
- Designer: David Mann
- Imprint: Bloomsbury
Winner Folk
By Zoe Gilbert
- Designer: David Mann
- Imprint: Bloomsbury
Area X
By Jeff VanderMeer
- Designer: Julian Humphries
- Imprint: 4th Estate
- Non-Fiction
Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
By Jaron Lanier
- Designer: Dan Mogford
- Imprint: The Bodley Head
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Talk on the Wild Side
By Lane Greene
- Designer: Sinem Erkas
- Illustrator: Sinem Erkas
- Art Director: Peter Dyer
- Imprint: The Economist
Rock Graphic Originals
By
- Designer: Dan Streat
- Illustrator: Victor Moscoso
- Art Director: Johanna Neurath
- Imprint: Thames and Hudson
Sex for Structuralists
By Shanna De La Torre
- Designer: Tjaša Krivec
- Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
In Miniature
By Simon Garfield
- Designer: Pete Adlington
- Imprint: Canongate
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This Book Will Blow Your Mind
By New Scientist
- Designer: Ben Summers
- Imprint: John Murray
Feel Free
By Zadie Smith
- Designer: Jon Gray
- Imprint: Hamish Hamilton
Winner Money
By Laura Whateley
- Designer: Jack Smyth
- Imprint: 4th Estate
Gin
By Gin Foundry
- Designer: James Jones
- Imprint: Ebury Press
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Gene Eating
By Dr. Giles Yeo
- Designer: Kishan Rajani
- Illustrator: Kishan Rajani
- Imprint: Seven Dials
Revolt
By
- Designers: Paul Belford & Lyam Bewry
- Art Director: Paul Belford
- Imprint: TNT
Be More Pirate
By Sam Conniff Allende
- Designer: Chris Bentham
- Imprint: Penguin
- Series Design
Penguin Monarchs
By Various
- Designer: Matthew Young
- Art Director: Jim Stoddart
- Imprint: Penguin
Pelican
By Various
- Designer: Matthew Young
- Art Director: Jim Stoddart
- Imprint: Pelican
Winner Miriam Toews
By Miriam Toews
- Designer: Jonathan Pelham
- Illustrator: Jonathan Pelham
- Art Director: Donna Payne
- Imprint: Faber & Faber
Penguin European Writers
By Various
- Designer: Chris Bentham
- Art Director: John Hamilton
- Imprint: Penguin
John O’Hara
By John O’Hara
- Designer: Kris Potter
- Illustrator: Bill Bragg
- Art Director: Suzanne Dean
- Imprint: Vintage
Platypus Press Shorts
By Various
- Designer: Peter Barnfather
- Illustrator: Roman Muradov
- Imprint: Platypus
- Classics/Reissue
3 Novels
By César Aira
- Designer: Jon Gray
- Imprint: Penguin
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The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories
By Jay Rubin
- Designer: Matthew Young
- Illustrator: Hiroyuki Izutsu
- Art Director: Jim Stoddart
- Imprint: Penguin
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Winner Rebecca
By Daphne Du Maurier
- Designer: Hannah Wood
- Illustrator: Hand & Lock embroidery
- Imprint: Virago
Blonde
By Joyce Carol Oates
- Designer: Julian Humphries
- Imprint: Fourth Estate
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The Lat Samurai
By Helen DeWitt
- Designer: Kris Potter
- Art Director: Suzanne Dean
- Imprint: Vintage
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The Seas
By Samantha Hunt
- Designer: Jamie Keenan
- Art Director: Nico Taylor
- Imprint: Corsair
- Children’s 0-5
I Do Not Like Books Anymore!
By Daisy Hirst
- Designer: Ben Norland
- Illustrator: Daisy Hirst
- Art Director: Ben Norland
- Imprint: Walker Books
Animalphabet
By Julia Donaldson
- Designer: Sharon King-Chai
- Illustrator: Sharon King-Chai
- Art Director: Chris Inns
- Imprint: Two Hoots
Little Mouse and the Red Wall
By Britta Teckentrup
- Designer: Paula Burgess
- Imprint: Orchard Books, Hachette Children's Group
Winner Helping Hen
By Claudio Ripol and Yeonju Yang
- Designers: Claudio Ripol & Yeonju Yang
- Illustrator: Claudio Ripol and Yeonju Yang
- Photographer: Claudio Ripol
- Art Director: Yeonju Yang
- Imprint: Owl and Dog Playbooks
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How To Be A Lion
By Ed Vere
- Designer: Goldy Broad
- Illustrator: Ed Vere
- Art Director: Anna Billson
- Imprint: Puffin
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Look
By Fiona Woodcock
- Designer: Fiona Woodcock
- Illustrator: Fiona Woodcock
- Art Director: Paul Zakris
- Imprint: Harper Collins US
- Children’s 6-12
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Clownfish
By Alan Durant
- Designer: Helen Crawford-White
- Art Director: Maria Soler Canton
- Imprint: Walker Books
Bad Nana
By Sophy Henn
- Designer: Goldy Broad
- Illustrator: Sophy Henn
- Art Director: Val Brathwaite
- Imprint: HarperCollins Children's Books
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Winner The Boy at the Back of the Class
By Onjali Rauf
- Designer: Thy Bui
- Illustrator: Pippa Curnick
- Art Director: Orion Children's
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Skycircus
By Peter Bunzl
- Designer: Kath Millichope
- Illustrator: Becca Stadtlander
- Imprint: Usborne
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Happy Poems
By Roger McGough
- Designer: Rachel Vale
- Imprint: Macmillan Children's Books
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The Puffin Book of Ghosts and Ghouls
By Gene Kemp
- Designer: Matt Jones
- Illustrator: Matt Jones
- Art Director: Anna Billson
- Imprint: Puffin
- Literary Fiction
Frankenstein in Baghdad
By Ahmed Saadawi
- Designer: James Jones
- Art Director: James Jones
- Imprint: Oneworld Publications
Winner Convenience Store Woman
By Sayaka Murata
- Designer: Luke Bird
- Art Director: Sarah Wasley
- Imprint: Granta
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Astroturf
By Matthew Sperling
- Designer: Jon Gray
- Imprint: Quercus
Notes From the Fog
By Ben Marcus
- Designer: Jamie Keenan
- Photographer: Jonathan Knowles
- Art Director: Sarah Wasley
- Imprint: Granta
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Sight
By Jessie Greengrass
- Designer: Sara Marafini
- Photographer: Stephen Carroll
- Art Director: Sara Marafini
- Imprint: John Murray
Ponti
By Sharlene Teo
- Designer: Katie Tooke
- Illustrator: Michael Mateyko
- Imprint: Picador
- Crime/Thriller
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American By Day
By Derek B. Miller
- Designer: Richard Shailer
- Imprint: Doubleday
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Tales From the Dead of Night
By James, Rendell, Wharton, Kipling, Nesbit...
- Designer: David Wardle
- Art Director: Peter Dyer
- Imprint: Profile
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You Were Made for This
By Michelle Sacks
- Designer: Lisa Brewster
- Photographer: Cristopher Civitillo/plainpicture
- Imprint: HQ
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By Leo Benedictus
- Designer: Luke Bird
- Art Director: Donna Payne
- Imprint: Faber & Faber
Winner That Old Black Magic
By Cathi Unsworth
- Designer: Leo Nickolls
- Art Director: Peter Dyer
- Imprint: Serpent's Tail
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The Price You Pay
By Aidan Truhen
- Designer: Levente Szabo
- Art Director: Peter Dyer
- Imprint: Serpent's Tail
- Mass Market
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Winner When Katie Met Cassidy
By Camille Perri
- Designer: Sinem Erkas
- Illustrator: Sinem Erkas
- Art Director: Hannah Wood
- Imprint: Piatkus
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The Lost Letters of William Woolf
By Helen Cullen
- Designer: Helen Crawford-White
- Illustrator: Helen Crawford-White
- Imprint: Michael Joseph
Playing With Matches
By Hannah Orenstein
- Designer: Sinem Erkas
- Illustrator: Sinem Erkas
- Imprint: Simon and Schuster US
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Cows
By Dawn O'Porter
- Designer: Claire Ward
- Imprint: Harper Collins
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Dear Mrs. Bird
By A J Pearce
- Designer: Katie Tooke
- Illustrator: Emily Sutton / Typoretum
- Imprint: Picador
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A Spark of Light
By Jodi Picoult
- Designer: Alasdair Oliver
- Imprint: Hodder & Stoughton
