2024 shortlist
- Young Adult
Totally Deceased
By Sue H. Cunningham
- Designer: Sarah Baldwin
- Imprint: Scholastic
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She Is Haunting
By Trang Thanh Tran
- Designer: Thy Bui
- Illustrator: Elena Masci
- Imprint: Bloomsbury Children’s Books
Winner Never Tell Anyone Your Name
By Federico Ivanier
- Designer: James Nunn
- Imprint: HopeRoad
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Let’s Play Murder
By Kesia Lupo
- Designer: Tom Sanderson
- Imprint: Bloomsbury Children’s Books
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Happy Head
By Josh Silver
- Designer: Hayley Warnham
- Art Director: Ben Summers
- Imprint: Rock the Boat
Electric Life
By Rachel Delahaye
- Designer: Anna Morrison
- Imprint: Troika
- Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Titanium Noir
By
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The Marigold
By Andrew F. Sullivan
- Designer: Jo Walker
- Art Director: Jessica Albert
- Imprint: ECW Press
The Ferryman
By Justin Cronn
- Designer: Tomás Almeida
- Imprint: Orion Fiction
Winner Seaweed Rising
By Rob Magnuson Smith
- Designer: Heike Schüssler
- Imprint: Sandstone Press
Prophet
By Helen MacDonald and Sin Blaché
- Designer: Dan Mogford
- Illustrator: Martin Naumann
- Art Director: Suzanne Dean
- Imprint: Jonathan Cape
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Bridge
By Lauren Beukes
- Designer: Lauren Wakefield
- Illustrator: Dorian Legret
- Imprint: Michael Joseph
- Non-Fiction
The Violence of Britishness
By Nadya Ali
- Designer: Steve Leard
- Art Director: Melanie Patrick
- Imprint: Pluto Press
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Total Reset
By Sinéad Brady
- Designer: Steve Leard
- Imprint: Harper Collins Ireland
Winner The Cat Prince
By Michael Pedersen
- Designer: Jon Gray
- Art Director: Charlotte Stroomer
- Imprint: Corsair Poetry
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Size
By Vaclav Smil
- Designer: Chris Bentham
- Imprint: Penguin Viking
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Sensitive
By Jennifer Granneman and Andre Sól
- Designer: Chris Bentham
- Imprint: Penguin Life
Ravenous
By Henry Dimbleby
- Designer: Jack Smyth
- Art Director: Steve Coventry-Panton
- Imprint: Profile
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Friendaholic
By Elizabeth Day
- Designer: Jo Thomson
- Imprint: 4th Estate
Forgotten Women
By Zing Tsjeng
- Designer: Melissa Four
- Imprint: Brazen
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Fear
By Robert Peckham
- Designer: Tom Etherington
- Art Director: Steve Coventry-Panton
- Imprint: Profile
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Eve
By Cat Bohannaon
- Designer: Henry Petrides
- Illustrator: John Vogl
- Imprint: Hutchinson Heinemann
Escape
By Marie Le Conte
- Designer: Steve Leard
- Art Director: Emily Rough
- Imprint: Blink Publishing
Collapse Feminism
By Alice Cappelle
- Designer: Hollie Smith
- Art Director: Karen Smith
- Imprint: Repeater Books
- Series Design
Penguin Crime
By various
- Designer: Matthew Young
- Illustrator: Matthew Young, Jan Wong, Mike McQuade
- Art Director: Jim Stoddart
- Imprint: Penguin Press
Japanese Novellas
By various
- Designer: Jack Smyth
- Imprint: Pushkin Press
Iain M. Banks
By Iain M. Banks
- Designers: Ben Prior & Nico Taylor
- Imprint: Orbit
Winner Calvino
By Italo Calvino
- Designer: Jack Smyth
- Imprint: Mondadori
American Gothic
By various
- Art Director: Suzanne Dean
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
Winner Adam Mars-Jones
By Adam Mars-jones
- Designer: Jonathan Pelham
- Art Director: Pete Adlington
- Imprint: Faber
- Classics/Reissue
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Verbal Riddim
By various
- Designer: Matt Broughton
- Art Director: Suzanne Dean
- Imprint: Vintage Classics
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The Vaster Wilds
By Lauren Groff
- Designer: Henry Petrides
- Illustrator: Joe McLaren
- Imprint: Hutchinson Heinemann
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Winner Termush
By Sven Holm
- Designer: Robbie Porter
- Art Director: Pete Adlington
- Imprint: Faber
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Pilcrow
By Adam Mars-jones
- Designer: Jonathan Pelham
- Art Director: Pete Adlington
- Imprint: Faber
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Orlando
By Virginia Woolf
- Designer: Holly Ovenden
- Imprint: Mondadori
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A Visit From the Goon Squad
By Jennifer Egan
- Designer: Jack Smyth
- Art Director: Nico Taylor
- Imprint: Corsair
- Children’s 0-5
The Wild
By Yuval Zommer
- Designer: Holly Fulbrook
- Illustrator: Yuval Zommer
- Imprint: Oxford Children’s Books
Rainbow
By Sarah Boris
- Designer: Sarah Boris
- Imprint: Corners, Seoul
Peg Book
By Claudio Ripol
- Designers: Yeonju Yang & Claudio Ripol
- Imprint: Owl and Dog Playbooks
Leina and the Lord of the Toadstools
By Myriam Dahman & Nicolas Digard
- Designer: Sarah Andrews
- Illustrator: Júlia Sarda
- Imprint: Orchard
Winner Holey Moley
By Bethan Clarke and Anders Frang
- Designer: Elle Boultwood
- Imprint: Little Tiger Picture Books
Doris
By Lo Cole
- Designer: Ness Wood
- Illustrator: Lo Cole
- Imprint: Rocketbird Books
- Children’s 6-12
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Wild
By Ele Fountain
- Designer: Thy Bui
- Illustrator: Thy Bui
- Imprint: Pushkin Children’s Books
The Night Animals
By Sarah Ann Juckes
- Designer: David McDougall
- Illustrator: Sharon King-Chai
- Art Director: David McDougall
- Imprint: Simon and Schuster Children’s
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Olly Brown, God of Hamsters
By Bethany Walker
- Designer: Jack Noel
- Illustrator: Jack Noel
- Art Director: Sarah Baldwin
- Imprint: Scholastic
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How to Love
By Alex Norris
- Designer: Ben Norland
- Illustrator: Alex Norris
- Art Director: Ben Norland
- Imprint: Walker Books
Winner Glow
By Jennifer N. R. Smith
- Designers: Jennifer N. R. Smith & Kate Haynes
- Art Director: Anna Ridley
- Imprint: Thames & Hudson
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Finn Jones Was Here
By Simon James Green
- Designer: Sarah Baldwin
- Illustrator: Jennifer Jamieson
- Imprint: Scholastic
- Literary Fiction
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You, Bleeding Childhood
By Michele Mari
- Designer: Holly Ovenden
- Imprint: & Other Stories
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Tremor
By Teju Cole
- Designer: Jonathan Pelham
- Art Director: Pete Adlington
- Imprint: Faber
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Winner The Dimensions of A Cave
By Greg Jackson
- Designer: Jamie Keenan
- Art Director: Sarah Wasley
- Imprint: Granta Books
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Big Swiss
By Jen Beagin
- Designer: Kishan Rajani
- Art Director: Pete Adlington
- Imprint: Faber
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August Blue
By Deborah Levy
- Designer: Jon Gray
- Imprint: Hamish Hamilton
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A Dictator Calls
By Ismail Kadare
- Designer: Matt Broughton
- Imprint: Harvill Leopard
- Crime/Thriller
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Zero-Sum
By Joyce Carol Oates
- Designer: Julian Humphries
- Imprint: 4th Estate
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Thirsty Animals
By Rachelle Atalla
- Designer: Nathan Burton
- Art Director: Kate Brunt
- Imprint: Hodder & Stoughton
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Palace of Shadows
By Ray Celestin
- Designer: Nathan Burton
- Art Director: Ami Smithson
- Imprint: Mantle
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Killing Jericho
By William Hussey
- Designer: Andrew Davis
- Art Director: Jenny Richards
- Imprint: Zaffre
Winner Dead Eleven
By Jimmy Juliano
- Designer: Alex Robbins
- Art Director: Jason Booher
- Imprint: Dutton
Bad Cree
By Jessica Johns
- Designer: Holly Ovenden
- Imprint: Scribe UK
- Mass Market
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YellowFace
By Rebecca F. Kuang
- Designer: Ellie Game
- Imprint: Borough Press
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Spilt Milk
By Amy Beashel
- Designer: Emma Rogers
- Imprint: Harper North
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Really Good Actually
By Monica Heisey
- Designer: Jo Thomson
- Imprint: 4th Estate
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Winner Oh, Sister
By Jodie Chapman
- Designer: Lauren Wakefield
- Illustrator: Noelle Campbell
- Imprint: Michael Joseph
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Dazzling
By Chikodili Emelumadu
- Designer: Holly Ovenden
- Imprint: Wildfire
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Careering
By Daisy Buchanan
- Designer: Bekki Guyatt
- Imprint: Little, Brown
