Amandadnama
Amanda

International Booker Prize Shortlisted Books

Because the nominees are just as interesting as the winners.

Full list of the International Booker Prize shortlisted books since 2016, in order. (Doesn't include the winners)

A General Theory of Oblivion

A General Theory of Oblivion
ByJosé Eduardo Agualusa,Daniel Hahn(Translator)

2012 • 31 Readers • 245 pages 4

A New Name: Septology VI-VII

Planned book #6 of 7 in Septologien

13 Readers 4.9

A Strangeness in My Mind

A Strangeness in My Mind
ByOrhan Pamuk,Ekin Oklap(Translator)

2014 • 37 Readers • 564 pages 4

A Whole Life

A Whole Life
ByRobert Seethaler

2014 • 33 Readers • 160 pages 4.1

Boulder

#2 of 3 in Tríptic

Boulder
ByEva Baltasar,Julia Sanches(Translator)

2020 • 133 Readers • 112 pages 4.1

Compass

Compass
ByMathias Énard

2015 • 20 Readers • 448 pages 3.3

Crooked Plow

Crooked Plow
ByItamar Vieira Junior

2023 • 21 Readers • 242 pages 4

Cursed Bunny

Cursed Bunny
ByBora Chung,Deaz Putri(Translator)

2017 • 367 Readers • 395 pages 3.6

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
ByOlga Tokarczuk,Antonia Lloyd-Jones(Translator)

2009 • 543 Readers • 290 pages 3.8

Elena Knows

Elena Knows
ByClaudia Piñeiro,Frances Riddle(Translator)

2007 • 184 Readers • 105 pages 4.3

Fever Dream

Fever Dream
BySamanta Schweblin,Megan McDowell(Translator)

2014 • 243 Readers • 183 pages 3.7

Frankenstein in Bagdad

Frankenstein in Bagdad
ByAhmed Saadawi

2019 • 296 pages

Heaven

Heaven
ByMieko Kawakami,Sam Bett(Translator),+1 more

2009 • 372 Readers • 167 pages 3.6

Hurricane Season

Hurricane Season
ByFernanda Melchor,Sophie Hughes(Translator)

2017 • 251 Readers • 224 pages 4.1

In Memory of Memory

In Memory of Memory
ByMaria Stepanova

2017 • 28 Readers • 436 pages 3.9

Judas

Judas
ByAmos Oz,Hilde Pach(Translator)

2014 • 17 Readers • 400 pages 3.6

Like a Fading Shadow

Like a Fading Shadow
ByAntonio Muñoz Molina,Camilo A. Ramirez(Translator)

2014 • 5 Readers

Mater 2-10

Mater 2-10
ByHwang Sok-yong

2020 • 16 Readers 3

Cover 0

Mirror, Shoulder, Signal
ByDorthe Nors,Misha Hoekstra(Translator)

2016 • 11 Readers 3.5

Not a River

Not a River
BySelva Almada,Annie McDermott(Translator)

2020 • 28 Readers • 99 pages 4.1

Standing Heavy

Standing Heavy
ByGauz,Frank Wynne(Translator)

2014 • 17 Readers • 252 pages 4.5

Still Born

Still Born
ByGuadalupe Nettel,Rosalind Harvey(Translator)

2020 • 40 Readers • 216 pages 4.4

The Adventures of China Iron

The Adventures of China Iron
ByGabriela Cabezón Cámara,Fiona Mackintosh(Translator),+1 more

2019 • 19 Readers • 188 pages 4

The Books of Jacob

The Books of Jacob
ByOlga Tokarczuk,Jennifer Croft(Translator)

2014 • 141 Readers • 35h 37m 3.9

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

2009 • 354 Readers • 209 pages 3.8

The Details

The Details
ByIa Genberg

2022 • 90 Readers • 110 pages 4

The Employees

The Employees
ByOlga Ravn,Martin Aitken(Translator)

2018 • 24 Readers • 139 pages 4.1

The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree

The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree
ByShokoofeh Azar,Adrien Kijek(Translator)

2017 • 40 Readers • 272 pages 3.6

The Four Books

The Four Books
ByYan Lianke,Carlos Rojas(Translator)

2013 • 25 Readers • 400 pages 3.5

The Gospel According to the New World

The Gospel According to the New World
ByMaryse Condé,Richard Philcox(Translator)

2021 • 8 Readers • 259 pages 3

The Memory Police

The Memory Police
ByYōko Ogawa,Stephen Snyder(Translator),+1 more

1994 • 856 Readers • 289 pages 3.7

The Pine Islands

The Pine Islands
ByMarion Poschmann,Jen Calleja(Translator)

2017 • 9 Readers • 180 pages 3

The Remainder

The Remainder
ByAlia Trabucco Zerán,Sophie Hughes(Translator)

2015 • 7 Readers • 193 pages 3

The Shape of the Ruins

The Shape of the Ruins
ByJuan Gabriel Vásquez,Anne McLean(Translator)

2015 • 10 Readers • 528 pages 4

The Story of the Lost Child

#4 of 4 in L'amica geniale

The Story of the Lost Child
ByElena Ferrante,Ann Goldstein(Translator)

2014 • 185 Readers • 498 pages 4.4

The Unseen

#1 of 4 in Ingrid Barrøy

The Unseen
ByRoy Jacobsen

2020 • 10 Readers

The War of the Poor

The War of the Poor
ByÉric Vuillard,Mark Polizzotti(Translator)

2019 • 13 Readers • 80 pages 3.6

The White Book

The White Book
ByHan Kang

2016 • 162 Readers • 128 pages 3.9

The World Goes On

The World Goes On
ByLászló Krasznahorkai

2013 • 13 Readers • 324 pages 3

The Years

The Years
ByAnnie Ernaux,Alison L. Strayer(Translator)

2008 • 101 Readers • 256 pages 4.2

Tyll

Tyll
ByDaniel Kehlmann,Isabel García Adánez(Translator)

2017 • 79 Readers • 364 pages 3.9

Undiscovered

Undiscovered
ByGabriela Wiener

2023 • 16 Readers • 142 pages 3.5

Vernon Subutex 1

#1 of 3 in Vernon Subutex

Vernon Subutex 1
ByVirginie Despentes

2015 • 52 Readers • 386 pages 3.8

Whale

Whale
ByCheon Myeong-Kwan,Chi-Young Kim(Translator)

2004 • 35 Readers • 373 pages 3.8

When We Cease to Understand the World

When We Cease to Understand the World
ByBenjamín Labatut,Adrian Nathan West(Translator)

2019 • 409 Readers • 192 pages 4.1