Green Room · selections
93 books recognised by this prize; those with a page and an offer in your market are below · About the prize.
English-language · US offers
David Szalay
A Booker-winning portrait of a taciturn Hungarian man's life, told in spare scenes that move from a small estate to London's wealthy circles. Pick it for compression and compassion rather than plot machinery.
Samantha Harvey
A whole novel in one day aboard the International Space Station, six crew circling the Earth sixteen times. It suits readers who want a short book that reads more like a long look at the planet than a story.
Kazuo Ishiguro
An English butler takes a drive through the West Country in 1956 and looks back on a lifetime of service at Darlington Hall. A classic of unreliable self-deception and restraint, for readers who like what is left unsaid.
Luke Kennard
A very funny, off-kilter campus comedy: an out-of-work actor takes a job sitting silently inside a bag at the back of a professor's lectures, and the absurd set-up opens onto questions about masculinity, identity and work.
Douglas Stuart
Douglas Stuart moves from Glasgow to the Isle of Harris for a tender, tense father-and-son story: a young man returns from art college to his family's croft and his devout, hard-to-read father, and a buttoned-up Gaelic-speaking community.
Elizabeth Strout
Elizabeth Strout leaves her familiar Maine cast for a new protagonist: a comfortably settled Massachusetts history teacher in late middle age whose private loneliness he cannot put into words — a quiet, intimate study for readers who love her attention to ordinary inner lives.
Marlon James
Marlon James's return to Jamaica after his fantasy trilogy: a big, many-voiced novel that begins with a group of gay men rehearsing a play in late-1980s Kingston and follows what violence and silence do to them over decades.
Ben Markovits
A middle-aged law professor drops his youngest at college and keeps driving, visiting old friends and family across America. A warm, confiding road novel about marriage and regret.
Andrew Miller
Two pregnant neighbours, one a doctor's wife and one a dairy farmer's, drift into friendship during the brutal winter of 1962. A quiet, finely observed novel of marriages and unspoken wartime shadows.
Kiran Desai
Kiran Desai's first novel in nearly two decades follows two young Indian writers whose paths keep missing and meeting between India and America. Pick it for sweep, comedy and sensory detail.