International Booker Prize


The International Booker Prize shortlist, in reverse chronological order, with links to those books reviewed in this blog.
  • 2024:
    • Shortlisted:
      • Not a River by Selva Almada
      • Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck
      • The Details by Ia Genberg
      • Mater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-yong
      • What I'd Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma
      • Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieria Junior
  • 2023: 
    • Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov (winner)
    • Shortlisted:
      • Boulder by Eva Baltasar
      • Whale by Cheon Myeong-kwan
      • The Gospel According to the New World by Maryse Conde
      • Standing Heavy by GauZ
      • Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel
    • Longlisted:
      • Is Mother Dead? by Vigdis Hjorth
      • Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv by Andrey Kurkov
      • The Birthday Party by Laurent Mauvignier
      • While We Were Dreaming by Clemens Meyer
      • Pyre by Perumal Murugan
      • A System So Magnificent It Is Blinding by Amanda Svensson
      • Ninth Building by Zou Jingzhi
  • 2022: 
    • Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree (winner)
    • Shortlisted:
      • Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung
      • A New Name: Septology VI - VII by Jon Fosse
      • Heaven by Mieko Kawakami
      • Elena Knows by Claudia Pineiro
      • The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk
    • Longlisted:
      • After the Sun by Jonas Eika
      • More Than I Love My Life by David Grossman
      • The Book of Mother by Violaine Huisman
      • Paradais by Fernanda Melchor
      • Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park
      • Happy Stories, Mostly by Norman Erikson Pasaribu
      • Phenotypes by Paulo Scott
  • 2021: 
    • At Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop (winner)
    • Shortlisted:
      • The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez
      • When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut
      • The Employees by Olga Ravin
      • In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova
      • The War of the Poor by Eric Vuillard
    • Longlisted:
      • I Live in the Slums by Can Xue
      • The Pear Field by Nana Ekvtimishvili
      • The Perfect Nine: The Epic Gikuyu and Mumbi by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
      • Summer Brother by Jaap Robben
      • An Inventory of Losses by Judith Schalansky
      • Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
      • Wretchedness by Andrzej Tichy
  • 2020:
    • The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld (winner)
    • Shortlisted:
      • The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar
      • The Adventures of China Iron by Gabrielle Cabezon Camara
      • Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann
      • Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor
      • The Memory police by Yoko Ogawa
    • Longlisted:
      • Red Dog by Willem Anker
      • The Other Name: Septology I - II by Jon Fosse
      • The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischvili
      • Serotonin by Michel Houellebecq
      • Faces on the Tip of my Tongue by Emmanuelle Pagano
      • Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin
      • Mac and His Problem by Enrique Vila-Matas
  • 2019: 
    • Celestial Bodies by Jokha al-Harthi (winner)
    • Shortlisted:
      • The Years by Annie Ernaux
      • The Pine Islands by Marion Poschmann
      • Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
      • The Shape of the Ruins by Juam Gabriel Vasquez
      • The Reminder by Alia Trabucco Zeran
    • Longlisted:
      • Love in the New Millennium by Can Xue
      • At Dusk by Hwang Sok-Yong
      • Jokes for the Gunmen by Mazen Maarouf
      • Four Soldiers by Hubert Mingarelli
      • Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin
      • The Faculty of Dreams by Sara Stridsberg
      • The Death of Murat Idrissi by Tommy Wieringa
  • 2018: 
    • Flights by Olga Tokarczuk (winner)
    • Shortlisted:
      • Vernon Subutex 1 by Virginie Despentes
      • The White Book by Han Kang
      • The World Goes On by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
      • Like a Fading Shadow by Antonio Munoz Molina
      • Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi
    • Longlisted:
      • The 7th Function of Language by Laurent Binet
      • The Impostor by Javier Cercas
      • Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
      • Die, My Love by Ariana Harwicz
      • The Flying Mountain by Christoph Ransmayr
      • The Stolen Bicycle by Wu Ming-Yi
      • The Dinner Guest by Gabriella Ybarra
  • 2017: 
    • A Horse Walks Into A Bar by David Grossman (winner)
    • Shortlisted:
      • Compass Bousole by Matthias Enard
      • The Unseen by Roy Jacobsen
      • Mirror, Shoulder, Signal by Dorthe Nors
      • Judas by Amos Oz
      • Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin
    • Longlisted:
      • Swallowing Mercury by Wioletta Greg
      • War and Turpentine by Stefan Hertmans
      • The Traitor's Niche by Ismail Kadare
      • Black Moses by AlainMabanckou
      • Bricks and Mortar by Clemens Meyer
      • Fish Have No Feet by Jon Kalman Stefansson
      • The Explosion Chronicles by Yan Lianke
  • 2016: 
    • The Vegetarian by Han Kang (winner)
    • Shortlisted:
      • A General Theory of Oblivion by Daniel Hahn
      • The Story of the Lost Child by Elena Ferrante
      • A Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan Parmuk
      • A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler
      • The Four Books by Yan Lianke
    • Longlisted:
      • Mend the Living by Maylis de Kerangal
      • Man Tiger by Eka Kerniawan
      • Tram 83 by Fiston Mwanza Mujila
      • A Cup of Rage by Raduan Nassar
      • Ladivine by Marie NDiaye
      • Death by Water by Kenzaburo Oe
      • White Hunger by Aki Ollikainen


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