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
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.
Katie Kitamura
An actress meets a young man who may be her son, and the story then restarts with the same people in a different configuration. A short, unsettling novel about identity and performance.
Susan Choi
A family drama that begins with a girl found half-dead on a Japanese beach and her father vanished, then unspools across decades and three countries. Good for readers who like layered, character-led mysteries.
Percival Everett
Huckleberry Finn retold from Jim's point of view, where he hides his intelligence behind a performed dialect. Pick it for suspense, wit and a fresh look at a classic.
Paul Harding
A fictionalised version of the 1912 eviction of an interracial island community off Maine, told in long, rolling sentences. It rewards readers who like historical fiction with a lyrical, almost mythic voice.
Claire Keegan
A coal merchant in 1985 New Ross, in the run-up to Christmas, has to decide what a small act of decency will cost him. It is spare, quiet and can be read in an evening.