Shortlists have been released for Blackwell's Book of the Year, the Bookseller reported. The winner will be named on December 1. This year's shortlisted titles are:
The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout
The End of Everything by M. John Harrison
John of John by Douglas Stuart
Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zi, translated by Lin King
The Girls by John Bowen
The New Dark Ages by James Marriott
London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea by Emily Wilson
The Nerd Reich by Gil Duran
The Book of Birds by Robert MacFarlane & Jackie Morris
On the Equality of All Things by Carlo Rovelli
Finding Albion by Zakia Sewell
The Beginning Comes After the End by Rebecca Solnit
Dear Grace by Claire Thomson, illustrated by Phoebe Rutherford
The Lost Robot by Joe Todd-Stanton
Believe by Catherine Doyle, illustrated by Freya Hartas