2017 shortlist
- Young Adult
Winner The Memory Book
By Lara Avery
- Designer: Sinem Erkas
When Everything Feels Like the Movies
By Raziel Reid
- Designer: Ceara Elliot
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The Island
By Olivia Levez
- Designer: Nathan Burton
The Girl of Ink & Stars
By Kiran Millwood Hargrave
- Designer: Helen Crawford-White
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Swan Boy
By Nikki Sheehan
- Designer: Nathan Burton
Beast
By Brie Spangler
- Designer: Leo Nickolls
- Sci-Fi/Fantasy
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Winner Radiance
By Catherynne M. Valente
- Designer: Nathan Burton
True Names
By Vernor Vinge
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The War Against the Assholes
By Sam Munson
- Designer: Jack Smyth
The Trees
By Ali Shaw
- Designer: David Mann
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Foundation
By Isaac Asimov
- Designer: Mike Topping
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Dark Matter
By Blake Crouch
- Designer: James Annal
- Non-Fiction
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Winner The Genius of Birds
By Jennifer Ackerman
- Designer: Jack Smyth
White Mountain
By Robert Twigger
- Designer: Harry Haysom
Weak Messages Create Bad Situations: A Manifesto
By David Shrigley
- Designer: David Shrigley
The Voices Within: The History and Science of How We Talk to Ourselves
By Charles
- Designer: Harry Haysom
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The Story of Sex: From Apes to Robots
By Philippe Brenot & Laetitia Coryn
- Designer: Matthew Young
- Illustrator: Laetitia Coryn
The Secret Lives of Colour
By Kassia St Clair
- Designer: James Edgar
The Joy of Quiz
By Alan Connor
- Designer: Tom Etherington
The Good Immigrant
By Nikesh Shukla
- Designer: James Jones
Raptor: A Journey Through Birds
By James Macdonald Lockhart
- Designer: Jo Walker
Playing The Bass with Three Left Hands
By Will Carruthers
- Designer: Luke Bird
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My Father, the Pornographer: A Memoir
By Chris Offutt
- Designer: Jamie Keenan
Marcus Coates
By Shepherd Steiner
- Imprint: Koenig Books
- Series Design
Vintage Futures
By Various Authors
- Designer: Vintage Design Team
Penguin World Series
By Various Authors
- Designers: Richard Bravery & La Boca
Australia Trilogy
By J P Smythe
- Designer: 12 Orchards
Winner Woolf Series
By Virginia Woolf
- Designer: Suzanne Dean
Dawkins Series
By Richard Dawkins
- Designer: Matthew Young
Faber Nature Poets
By Various Authors
- Designer: Eleanor Crow
- Classics/Reissue
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Winner The Birds
By Daphne du Maurier
- Designer: Jamie Keenan
The Woman in Black
By Susan Hill
- Designer: Jamie Clarke
- Imprint: Penguin Random House
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Some Rain Must Fall
By Michel Faber
- Designer: Rafi Romaya
- Illustrator: Yehrin Tong
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Infinite Jest
By David Foster Wallace
- Designer: Jon Gray
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Cold Skin
By Albert Sánchez Piñol
- Designer: Christopher Gale
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1917: Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution
By Boris Dralyuk
- Designer: David Pearson
- Children’s (Pre-2018)
Winner The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas
By John Boyne
- Designer: Dominica Clements
- Illustrator: Oliver Jeffers
- Art Director: Anna Billson
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There’s a Tiger in the Garden
By Lizzy Stewart
- Designer: Zoé Tucker
- Illustrator: Lizzy Stewart
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The Wonderful Adventure of Nils Holgersson
By Selma Lagerlöf
- Designer: Coralie Bickford-Smith
The Twelve Days of Christmas
By William Morris
- Designer: Liz Catchpole
The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories
By Oscar Wilde
- Designer: Leo Nickolls
The Beginning Woods
By Malcolm Mc Neill
- Designer: Helen Crawford-White
Pass it On
By Sophy Henn
- Designer: Goldy Broad
- Art Director: Anna Billson
Odd Dog Out
By Rob Biddulph
- Designer: Rob Biddulph
Midnight at the Zoo
By Faye Hanson
- Designers: Genevieve Webster & Olivia Cook
- Illustrator: Faye Hanson
Illuminature
By Rachel Williams
- Designer: Nicola Price
- Illustrator: Carnovsky
Botanicum
By Katie Scott & Kathy Willis
- Designer: Katie Scott
- Art Director: Winsome d’Abreu
- Imprint: Big Picture Press
A Child of Books
By Oliver Jeffers & Sam Winston
- Designer: Oliver Jeffers
- Illustrator: Oliver Jeffers & Sam Winston
- Art Director: Deirdre McDermott
- Imprint: Walker Books UK
- Women’s Fiction (Pre-2018)
Winner Vinegar Girl
By Anne Tyler
- Designer: Kris Potter
Umami
By Laia Jufresa
- Designer: Anna Morrison
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Three Daughters of Eve
By Elif Şafak
- Designer: Gill Heeley
The Vanishing Futurist
By Charlotte Hobson
- Designer: La Boca
Lover
By Anna Raverat
- Designer: Neil Lang
All This Has Nothing to Do with Me
By Monica Sabolo
- Designer: Justine Anweiler
- Literary Fiction
Winner The Start of Something
By Stuart Dybek
- Designer: Suzanne Dean
- Illustrator: Marion de Man
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Swing Time
By Zadie Smith
- Designer: Jon Gray
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Superabundance
By Heinz Helle
- Designer: Jamie Keenan
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Nicotine
By Nell Zink
- Designer: Julian Humphries
Hag-Seed
By Margaret Atwood
- Designer: Matt Broughton
- Illustrator: Vladimir Zimakov
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Beast
By Paul Kingsnorth
- Designer: Mark Ecob
- Illustrator: Alan Rogerson
- Crime/Thriller
Winner Maestra
By Lisa Hilton
- Designer: Blacksheep
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Wake
By Elizabeth Knox
- Designer: Ceara Elliot
The Nightwalker
By Mary Ravenhall
- Designer: Mark Swan
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The Hatching
By Ezekiel Boone
- Designer: Blacksheep
Hex
By Thomas Olde Heuvelt
- Designer: Anna Woodbine
- Illustrator: Leo Nickolls
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Darktown
By Thomas Mullen
- Designer: Craig Frasier
- Mass Market
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Winner Girls on Fire
By Robin Wasserman
- Designer: Jack Smyth
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To The Bright Edge of The World
By Eowyn Ivey
- Designer: Patrick Insole
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Not Working
By Lisa Owens
- Designer: Jo Thomson
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Motherland: A Novel
By Jo McMillan
- Designer: Andrew Smith
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Fates and Furies
By Lauren Groff
- Designer: Melissa Four
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A Boy Made of Blocks
By Keith Stuart
- Designer: Jack Smyth
