Here are the 2021 British Book Awards shortlists

The shortlists for the 2021 British Book Award have been released.

Prize administrators describe the Nibbies as honoring books that are highly successful in addition to well-written, making the shortlists stand out somewhat from other awards.

And in that vein, this year’s awards feature a new category: the pageturner.

Here are shortlists for a few categories; you can see the shortlists for all categories on The Bookseller.

Fiction Book of the Year 

• The Vanishing Half, by Brit Bennett

• The Lying Life of Adults, written by Elena Ferrante and translated by Ann Goldstein

• The Evening and the Morning, by Ken Follett

• The Midnight Library, by Matt Haig

• The Mirror and The Light, by Hilary Mantel

• Hamnet, by Maggie O’Farrell

Audiobook of the Year 

• Grown Ups, written and narrated by Marian Keys

• Piranesi, written by Susanna Clarke and narrated by Chiwetel Ejiofo

• The Midnight Library, written by Matt Haig and narrated by Carey Mulligan

• Greenlights, written and narrated by Matthew McConaughey

• Troubled Blood, written by Robert Galbraith and narrated by Robert Glenister

• The Thursday Murder Club, written by Richard Osman and narrated by Lesley Manville

• A Promised Land, written and narrated by Barack Obama

• Think Like a Monk, written and narrated by Jay Shetty

• The Sandman, written by Neil Gaiman and Dirk Maggs, and narrated by Riz Ahmed, Michael Sheen et al

Pageturner 

• False Value, by Ben Aaronovitch

• Rag-and-Bone Christmas, by Dilly Court

• All the Lonely People, by Mike Gayle

• Darkdawn, by Jay Kristoff

• Where The Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens

• Just My Luck, by Adele Parks