2023 Fiction Results

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Finalists

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Semifinalists

Carrie Soto Is Back – Taylor Jenkins Reid
​Demon Copperhead – Barbara Kingsolver
​Foster – Claire Keegan
​Horse – Geraldine Brooks
How High We Go in the Dark – Sequoia Nagamatsu
Kaikeyi – Vaishnavi Patel
​Nightcrawling – Leila Mottley
​Our Wives Under the Sea – Julia Armfield
​Take My Hand – Dolen Perkins-Valdez
​Trespasses – Louise Kennedy
Trust – Hernan Diaz
​Young Mungo – Douglas Stuart

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Quarterfinalists

Afterlives – Abdulrazak Gurnah
​Fellowship Point – Alice Elliott Dark
Now Is Not the Time to Panic – Kevin Wilson
Our Missing Hearts – Celeste Ng
​Stories from the Tenants Downstairs – Sidik Fofana
The Book of Goose – Yiyun Li
​The Daughter of Doctor Moreau – Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The English Understand Wool – Helen Dewitt
The Marriage Portrait – Maggie O’Farrell
​The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida – Shehan Karunatilaka
The Swimmers – Julie Otsuka
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow – Gabrielle Zevin

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Octofinalists

All This Could Be Different – Sarah Thankam Mathews
Blank Pages: And Other Stories – Bernard MacLaverty
Bliss Montage: Stories – Ling Ma
Booth – Karen Joy Fowler
Calling for a Blanket Dance – Oscar Hokeah
Case Study – Graeme Macrae Burnet
Companion Piece – Ali Smith
Dr. No – Percival Everett
Either/Or – Elif Batuman
French Braid – Anne Tyler
Glory – NoViolet Bulawayo
Lessons – Ian McEwan
Liberation Day: Stories – George Saunders
Love Marriage – Monica Ali
Lucy by the Sea – Elizabeth Strout
Memphis – Tara M. Stringfellow
Moon Witch, Spider King – Marlon James
Night of the Living Rez – Morgan Talty
Sea of Tranquility – Emily St. John Mandel
Shrines of Gaiety – Kate Atkinson
The Candy House – Jennifer Egan
The Passenger – Cormac McCarthy
The Rabbit Hutch – Tess Gunty
Vagabonds! – Eloghosa Osunde

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