Booker Prize

The Vivisectors

Missouri Williams

Icy, suspenseful mood

The Palm House

Gwendoline Riley

Sharp, observant prose

The Shadow of the Object

Chloe Aridjis

Precise, dreamlike prose

All Them Dogs

Djamel White

Helen of Nowhere

Makenna Goodman

The Renovation

Kenan Orhan

Limpid, wistful prose

Switzy

Emma Cline

Elegiac, immersive mood

Seascraper

Benjamin Wood

The South

Tash Aw

One Boat

Jonathan Buckley

Love Forms

Claire Adam

Endling

Maria Reva

Misinterpretation

Ledia Xhoga

Universality

Natasha Brown

For readers who like a short, sharp state-of-the-nation satire: a freelance journalist's viral long-read about a lockdown rave on a Yorkshire farm, and the gold bar swung there, is then revisited from the perspectives of the people it dragged into view.

Pearl

Siân Hughes

Vivid, attentive language