Shortlists have been released for Blackwell's Book of the Year, the Bookseller reported, adding that Zool Verjee, the company's commercial manager, said the finalists represent "titles that our booksellers loved to share with their customers this year." Category and overall Book of the Year winners will be named on December 1. This year's shortlisted titles are:
Fiction
On the Calculation of Volume: Book I by Solvej Balle
The Silver Book by Olivia Laing
Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico
What We Can Know by Ian McEwan
The Rose Field by Philip Pullman
Nonfiction
Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane
Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy
38 Londres Street by Philippe Sands
Indignity by Lea Ypi
The Buried City by Gabriel Zuchtriegel
Children's
Donut Squad by Neill Cameron
Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins
Alice with a Why by Anna James
Mighty Myths by Thiago de Moraes
Don't Trust Fish! by Neil Sharpson