2020 shortlist
- Young Adult
All The Things We Never Said
By Yasmin Rahman
- Designer: Alexandra Allden
- Imprint: Hot Key Books / Bonnier Books UK
Cross Fire
By Blackman, Malorie
- Designer: Andrea Kearney
- Illustrator: Fruzsina Czech
- Art Director: Jacqui McDonough / Anna Bilson
- Imprint: Penguin
Frankly In Love
By David Yoon
- Designer: Owen Glidersleeve
- Art Director: Theresa Evangelista
- Imprint: Penguin Random House
No Big Deal
By Bethany Rutter
- Designer: Rachel Vale
- Illustrator: Kris Atomic
- Imprint: Macmillan Childrens Books
Scars like Wings
By Erin Stewart
- Designer: Jesse Green
- Illustrator: Maricor/Maricar
- Imprint: Simon & Schuster Childrens
The Million Pieces of Neena Gill
By Emma Smith-Barton
- Designer: Andrea Kearney
- Art Director: Jacqui McDonough / Anna Bilson
- Imprint: Penguin
- Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Dead Astronauts
By Jeff Vandermeer
- Designer: Jo Walker
- Illustrator: Alycia Rainaud
Body Tourists
By Jane Rogers
- Designer: Aaron Munday
- Imprint: Sceptre
Everything You Ever Wanted
By Luiza Sauma
- Designer: Chris Bentham
- Art Director: Richard Bravery
- Imprint: Penguin
Hazards of Time Travel
By Joyce Carol Oates
- Designer: Heike Schüssler
- Art Director: Julian Humphries
- Imprint: Fourth Estate
Foe
By Iain Reed
- Designer: Craig Frasier
- Imprint: Scribner
My Name is Monster
By Katie Hale
- Designer: Gill Heeley
- Imprint: Canongate Books
- Non-Fiction
The Forager’s Calendar
By John Wright
- Designer: Peter Dyer
- Illustrator: Clare Curtis
- Art Director: Peter Dyer
- Imprint: Profile Books
Building and Dwelling
By Richard Sennett
- Designer: Tom Etherington
- Art Director: Jim Stoddart
- Imprint: Allen Lane
The Personals
By Brian O'Connell
- Designer: Micaela Alcaino
- Imprint: Harper Non fiction
Learning from the Germans
By Susan Neiman
- Designer: Tom Etherington
- Art Director: Jim Stoddart
- Imprint: Allen Lane
Behind Closed Doors
By Natalie Fiennes
- Designer: Jamie Keenan
- Art Director: Melanie Patrick
- Imprint: Pluto Press
Not Working
By Josh Cohen
- Designer: Matthew Young
- Art Director: Sarah wasley
- Imprint: Granta Books
Three Women
By Lisa Taddeo
- Designer: Gregg Heinimann
- Art Director: Greg Heinimann
- Imprint: Bloomsbury
What Happened?
By Hanif Kureishi
- Designer: Jonathan Pelham
- Art Director: Donna Payne
- Imprint: Faber & Faber
Superior
By Angela Saini
- Designer: Julian Humphries
- Art Director: Julian Humphries
- Imprint: 4th Estate
Culture In Nazi Germany
By Michael H. Kater
- Designer: Alex Kirby
- Imprint: Yale University Press London
Almost Perfekt
By David Crouch
- Designer: Steve Leard
- Art Director: Emily Rough
- Imprint: Blink Publishing
See What Can Be Done
By Lorrie Moore
- Designer: Jonathan Pelham
- Art Director: Donna Payne
- Imprint: Faber & Faber
- Series Design
Faber Stories
By
- Designer: Various
- Art Director: Donna Payne
- Imprint: Faber & Faber
Matchbook Classics
By Various
- Designer: Jack Smyth
- Art Director: Julian Humphries
- Imprint: 4th Estate
Kafka series
By Franz Kafka
- Designer: Suzanne Dean
- Art Director: Suzanne Dean
Martin Amis series
By
- Designer: Matt Broughton
- Art Director: Suzanne Dean
- Imprint: Vintage
Open Marxism series
By Various
- Designer: David Pearson
- Art Director: Melanie Patrick
- Imprint: Pluto Press
Kurt Vonnegut series
By Kurt Vonnegut
- Designer: Matt Broughton
- Art Director: Suzanne Dean
- Imprint: Vintage
- Classics/Reissue
Cruelty
By Roald Dahl
- Designer: John Kennedy
- Illustrator: Brett Ryder
- Art Director: Jon Kennedy
- Imprint: Penguin
The Bell Jar
By Sylvia Plath
- Designer: Jon Gray
- Art Director: Donna Payne
- Imprint: Faber & Faber
Less Than Zero
By Brett Easton Ellis
- Designer: Melissa Four
- Illustrator: Melissa Four
- Imprint: Picador Classics
Neuromancer
By William Gibson
- Designer: Jon Gray
- Illustrator: Jon Gray
- Art Director: Adam Auerbach
- Imprint: Berkley / Penguin Random House
Bluebeard
By Kurt Vonnegut
- Designer: Jack Smyth
- Illustrator: Jack Smyth
- Art Director: Julian Humphries
- Imprint: 4th Estate
Masks
By Fumiko Enchi
- Designer: Suzanne Deane
- Illustrator: Suzanne Dean
- Art Director: Suzanne Dean
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
- Children’s 0-5
Don’t Worry Little Crab
By Chris Haughton
- Designer: Deirdre McDermott
- Illustrator: Chris Haughton
- Imprint: Walker Books
Starbird
By Sharon King Chai
- Designer: Sharon King-Chai
- Illustrator: Sharon King-Chai
- Art Director: Chris Inns
- Imprint: Two Hoots (Macmillan Children's Books)
LIttle Green Donkey
By Anuska Allepuz
- Designer: Anne Louise Jones
- Illustrator: Anuska Allepuz
- Imprint: Walker Books
The Fate of Fausto
By Oliver Feffers
- Designers: David Pearson & Oliver Jeffers
- Illustrator: Oliver Jeffers
- Imprint: HarperCollins Children's Books
Red Red Red
By Polly Dunbar
- Designer: Audrey Keri-Nagy
- Illustrator: Polly Dunbar
- Imprint: Walker Books
We All Have Feelings
By
- Designer: Thereza Rowe
- Illustrator: Thereza Rowe
- Art Director: Thereza Rowe, Claudio Ripol, Yeonju Yang
- Imprint: Owl & Dog Playbooks
- Children’s 6-12
Chester Parsons Is Not a Gorilla
By Martyn Ford
- Designer: Emma Eldridge
- Imprint: Faber & Faber
Frostheart
By Jamie Littler
- Designer: Benjamin Hughes
- Illustrator: Jamie Littler
- Art Director: Jacqui McDonough & Anna Billson
- Imprint: Puffin
Jane Eyre
By
- Designer: Studio Helen
- Imprint: Barrington Stoke
Max Kowalski Didn’t Mean It
By Susie Day
- Designer: Dominica Clements
- Illustrator: Andrew Bannecker
- Art Director: Jacqui McDonough & Anna Billson
- Imprint: Puffin
Pog
By Pádraig Kenny
- Designer: Studio Helen
- Imprint: Chicken House
The Hero’s Quest
By
- Designer: Ben Norland
- Illustrator: Jeffrey Alan Love
- Imprint: Walker Studio
- Literary Fiction
Surge
By Jay Bernard
- Designer: Rosie Palmer
- Art Director: Suzanne Dean
- Imprint: Chatto & Windus
Muscle
By Alan Trotter
- Designer: Jon Gray
- Art Director: Donna Payne
Lanny
By Max Porter
- Designer: Jonathan Pelham
- Art Director: Donna Payne
- Imprint: Faber & Faber
Grand Union
By Zadie Smith
- Designer: Jon Gray
- Art Director: John Hamilton
- Imprint: Hamish Hamilton
Doxology
By Nell Zink
- Designer: Jack Smyth
- Art Director: Julian Humphries
- Imprint: Fourth Estate
Big Bang
By David Bowman
- Designer: Jamie Keenan
- Art Director: Nico Tylor
- Imprint: Corsair
- Crime/Thriller
The Hunting Party
By Lucy Foley
- Designer: Claire Ward
- Art Director: Claire Ward
- Imprint: Harper Collins
The Plotters
By Un-Su Kim
- Designer: Jack Smyth
- Art Director: Julian Humphries
- Imprint: Fourth Estate
Call Him Mine
By Tim MacGabhann
- Designer: Tony Lyons
- Imprint: Orion
Witchfinder
By Andrew williams
- Designer: Lewis Csizmazia
- Imprint: Hodder & Stoughton
The Honjin Murders
By Seishi Yokomizo
- Designer: Anna Morrison
- Imprint: Pushkin Vertigo
Kill
By Anthony Good
- Designer: Mark Swan
- Art Director: Richard Evans
- Imprint: Atlantic Books
- Mass Market
Devotion
By Madeline Stevens
- Designer: Jonathan Pelham
- Art Director: Donna Payne
- Imprint: Faber & Faber
Vox
By Christina Dalcher
- Designer: Kate Oakley
- Imprint: HQ
On The Up
By Alice O'Keeffe
- Designer: Sarah Christie
- Illustrator: Studio Helen
- Imprint: Coronet
Queenie
By Candice Carty-Williams
- Designer: Lucie Stericker
- Illustrator: Gerrel Saunders
- Art Director: Lucie Stericker
- Imprint: Trapeze
Normal People
By Sally Rooney
- Designer: Jon Gray
- Illustrator: Henn Kim Art
- Art Director: Donna Payne
- Imprint: Faber & Faber
Swan Song
By Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott
- Designer: Ceara Elliot
- Art Director: Jason Smith
- Imprint: Windmill Books