2021 Fiction Results

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Octafinalists

The Death of Vivek Oji – Akwaeke Emezi
Summer – Ali Smith
Actress – Anne Enright
Redhead by the Side of the Road – Anne Tyler
Homeland Elegies – Ayad Aktar
Real Life – Brandon Taylor
The Vanishing Half – Brit Bennett
Memorial – Bryan Washington
How Much of These Hills Is Gold – C Pam Zhang
The Prettiest Star – Carter Sickels
Pew – Catherine Lacey
Interior Chinatown – Charles Yu
Apeirogon – Colum McCann
Sisters – Daisy Johnson
Utopia Avenue – David Mitchell
Barn 8 – Deb Olin Unferth
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line – Deepa Anappara
Shuggie Bain – Douglas Stuart
The Glass Hotel – Emily St. John Mandel
The Pull of the Stars – Emma Donoghue
Cleanness – Garth Greenwell
The Mirror & the Light – Hilary Mantel
Love After Love – Ingrid Persaud
Deacon King Kong – James McBride
American Dirt – Jeanine Cummins
A Girl Is a Body of Water – Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Weather – Jenny Offill
Things in Jars – Jess Kidd
My Dark Vanessa – Kate Elizabeth Russell
Crooked Hallelujah – Kelli Jo Ford
Writers & Lovers – Lily King
The Night Watchman – Louise Erdrich
A Children’s Bible – Lydia Millet
Hamnet – Maggie O’Farrell
Parakeet – Marie-Helene Bertino
Jack – Marilynne Robinson
A Burning – Megha Majumdar
Big Girl, Small Town – Michelle Gallen
Death in Her Hands – Ottessa Moshfegh
Run Me to Earth – Paul Yoon
Luster – Raven Leilani
Leave the World Behind – Rumaan Alam
What Are You Going Through – Sigrid Nunez
Mexican Gothic – Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Piranesi – Susanna Clarke
White Ivy – Susie Yang
Swimming in the Dark – Tomasz Jedrowski
Transcendent Kingdom – Yaa Gyasi