2021 shortlist
- Young Adult
Winner Raybearer
By Jordan Ifueko
- Designer: Micaela Alcaino
- Illustrator: Micaela Alcaino
- Imprint: Hot Key Books
- Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Winner A Song For a New Day
By Sarah Pinkser
- Designer: Jack Smyth
- Art Director: Jessie Price
- Imprint: Ad Astra
- Non-Fiction
Winner The Five Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
By Hallie Rubenhold
- Designer: Jo Thomson
- Imprint: Doubleday
- Series Design
Winner The Smiley Collection
By John Le Carré
- Designer: David Pearson
- Art Director: Jim Stoddart
- Imprint: Penguin
- Classics/Reissue
Winner One Swallow
By Aristotle
- Designer: David Pearson
- Art Director: Jim Stoddart
- Imprint: Allen Lane
- Children’s 0-5
Winner Pug Hug
By Zehra Hicks
- Designer: Paula Burgess
- Illustrator: Zehra Hicks
- Imprint: Hodder Children's Books
- Children’s 6-12
Winner The Acrobats of Agra
By Robin Scott-Elliot
- Designer: Holly Ovenden
- Illustrator: Holly Ovenden
- Imprint: Everything With Words
- Literary Fiction
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Winner Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars.
By Joyce Carol Oates
- Designer: Jamie Keenan
- Photographer: Jeff Cottenden
- Art Director: Julian Humphreys
- Imprint: 4th Estate
- Crime/Thriller
Winner The Package
By Sebastian Fitzek
- Designer: Ben Prior
- Imprint: Head of Zeus
- Mass Market
Winner The Rearranged Life of Oona Lockhart
By Margarita Montimore
- Designer: Anna Morrison
- Art Director: Loulou Clarke
- Imprint: Gollancz
