2021 Fiction Results

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Finalists

The Death of Vivek Oji – Akwaeke Emezi
​The Vanishing Half – Brit Bennett
The Prettiest Star – Carter Sickels
​Shuggie Bain – Douglas Stuart
​My Dark Vanessa – Kate Elizabeth Russell
​Hamnet – Maggie O’Farrell

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Semifinalists

​Interior Chinatown – Charles Yu
Apeirogon – Colum McCann
​The Pull of the Stars – Emma Donoghue
The Mirror & the Light – Hilary Mantel
​Things in Jars – Jess Kidd
Writers & Lovers – Lily King

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Quarterfinalists

Summer – Ali Smith
Homeland Elegies – Ayad Aktar
Real Life – Brandon Taylor
Pew – Catherine Lacey
Utopia Avenue – David Mitchell
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line – Deepa Anappara
The Glass Hotel – Emily St. John Mandel
Love After Love – Ingrid Persaud
Deacon King Kong – James McBride
A Girl Is a Body of Water – Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Piranesi – Susanna Clarke
Swimming in the Dark – Tomasz Jedrowski

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Octafinalists

Actress – Anne Enright
Redhead by the Side of the Road – Anne Tyler
Memorial – Bryan Washington
How Much of These Hills Is Gold – C Pam Zhang
Sisters – Daisy Johnson
Barn 8 – Deb Olin Unferth
Cleanness – Garth Greenwell
American Dirt – Jeanine Cummins
Weather – Jenny Offill
Crooked Hallelujah – Kelli Jo Ford
The Night Watchman – Louise Erdrich
A Children’s Bible – Lydia Millet
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
White Ivy – Susie Yang
Transcendent Kingdom – Yaa Gyasi