2016 shortlist
- Young Adult
Winner Asking For It
By Louise O’Neill
- Designer: Kate Gaughran
Night Owls
By Jenn Bennett
- Designer: Leo Nickolls
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Me Being Me is Exactly as Insane as You Being You
By Todd Hasak-Lowy
- Designer: Paul Coomey
Life on the Refrigerator Door
By Alice Kuipers
- Designer: Rachel Vale
Killing the Dead
By Marcus Sedgwick
- Designer: Sinem Erkas
Birdy
By Jess Vallance
- Designer: Jet Purdie
- Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Winner A Man Lies Dreaming
By Lavie Tidhar
- Designer: Ben Summers
Under Ground
By S. L. Grey
- Designer: James Annal
The Time of the Clockmaker
By Anna Caltabiano
- Designer: Sinem Erkas
The Tried and True Tales of Phineas Ichabod Rate
By McKenzie Ruth
The Heart Goes Last
By Margaret Atwood
- Designer: David Mann
Speak
By Louisa Hall
- Designer: Jack Smyth
- Non-Fiction
Winner Egg
By Blanche Vaughan
- Designer: Clare Skeats
Visual Devices in Contemporary Prose Fiction
By Simon Barton
- Designer: Emma Hardy
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Syriza: Inside the Labyrinth
By Kevin Ovenden
- Designer: Jamie Keenan
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
By Carlo Rovelli
- Designer: Coralie Bickford-Smith
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The Seven Good Years
By Eigar Keret
- Designer: Jon Gray
Nopi
By Yotam Ottolenghi, Ramael Scully
- Designer: Here Design
Landscapes of Communism
By Owen Hatherley
- Designer: Fuel
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Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight
By Alexandra Fuller
- Designer: Justine Anweiler
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Charlotte Bronte: A Life
By Claire Harman
- Designers: Gill Heeley & Chloe Giordano
Breakfast Morning Noon and Night
By Fern Green
- Designer: Nick Barneby
Artwash: Big Oil and the Arts
By Mel Evans
- Designer: Jamie Keenan
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A Moral Defense of Recreational Drug Use
By Rob Lovering
- Designer: Will Speed
- Series Design
Winner Arthur Ransome Series
By Arthur Ransome
- Illustrator: Pietari Posti
- Art Director: James Jones
Pushkin Vertigo
By Various Authors
- Designer: Jamie Keenan
Puffin Classics
By Various Authors
- Designer: Various
- Art Director: Anna Morrison
Mitford Series
By Nancy Mitford
- Designer: Alison O'Toole
- Illustrator: Lourdes Sanchez
- Art Director: John Hamilton
Faber Members Series
By Various Authors
- Designer: Various
- Art Director: Donna Payne
3D Series
By Various Authors
- Designers: David Foldvari, La Boca & Kai & Sunny
- Art Director: Suzanne Dean & Rosie Palmer
- Classics/Reissue
Winner Far From the Madding Crowd
By Thomas Hardy
- Designer: Sinem Erkas
The Man in a Hurry
By Paul Morand
- Designers: Paul Finn, Alistair Hall & David Pearson
The Early Stories of Truman Capote
By Truman Capote
- Designer: David Pearson
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Once in a House on Fire
By Andrea Ashworth
- Designer: Justine Anweiler
Billy Liar
By Keith Waterhouse
- Designer: Rol Overwekk
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American Psycho
By Bret Easton Ellis
- Designer: Neil Lang
- Children’s (Pre-2018)
Winner The Fox and the Star
By
- Designer: Coralie Bickford-Smith
Oi Frog
By Kes Gray
- Illustrator: Jim Field
- Art Director: Jenny Stephenson
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Liccle Bit
By Alex Wheatle
- Designer: Sophie Burdess
- Illustrator: Dan Evans
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Last Train from Kummersdorf
By Leslie Wilson
- Designer: Helen Crawford-White
I Am Henry Finch
By Alexis Deacon
- Designer: Ben Norland
- Illustrator: Viviane Schwartz
Hoot Owl
By Sean Taylor
- Designer: Anne Louise Jones
- Illustrator: Jean Jullien
- Women’s Fiction (Pre-2018)
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Winner I Love Dick
By Chris Kraus
- Designer: Peter Dyer
Unforgettable
By Charlie Maclean
- Designer: Sinem Erkas
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The Help
By Kathryn Stockett
- Designer: Alison O'Toole
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The Marble Collector
By Cecelia Ahern
- Designer: Heike Schüssler
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All This Has Nothing to do with Me
By Monica Sabolo
- Designer: Justine Anweiler
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A Night in with Audrey Hepburn
By Lucy Holliday
- Designer: Jane Harwood
- Literary Fiction
Winner Memoirs of a Dipper
By Nell Leyshon
- Designer: Jon Gray
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The Battle of Switzerland
By Michael Dawkes
- Designer: Paul Wolterink
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Quicksand
By Steven Toltz
- Designer: Ben Summers
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Purity
By Jonathan Franzen
- Designer: Jonathan Pelham
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Etta and Otto and Russell and James
By Emma Hopper
- Designer: Jon Gray
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One Point Two Billion
By Mahesh Rao
- Designer: Jonathan Pelham
- Crime/Thriller
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Winner Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
By David Shafer
- Designer: Richard Bravery
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The Strings of Murder
By Oscar de Muriel
- Illustrator: Roberian Borges
- Art Director: Nick Shah
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The Killing of Bobbi Lomax
By Cal Moriarty
- Designer: Alex Kirby
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The Invisible Man from Salem
By Christoffer Carlsson
- Designer: Jamie Keenan
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The Girl on the Train
By Paula Hawkins
- Designer: Claire Ward
The Catalyst Killings
By Hans Olav Lahlum
- Designer: James Annal
- Mass Market
Winner Haus Frau
By Jill Alexander Essbaum
- Designer: Jo Thomson
- Illustrator: Maricor/Maricar
The Mirror World of Melody Black
By Gavin Extance
- Designer: Sarah Christie
- Illustrator: Fumio Watanabe
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The Girl in the Red Coat
By Kate Hamer
- Designer: Mark Swan
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The Bees
By Laline Paull
- Designer: Jo Walker
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A Year of Marvellous Ways
By Sarah Winman
- Designer: Ami Smithson
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A Reunion of Ghosts
By Judith Claire Mitchell
- Designer: Jo Walker
