Green Room · selections
48 books recognised by this prize; those with a page and an offer in your market are below · About the prize.
English-language · US offers
Rozie Kelly
A debut about a creative-writing professor whose stable life is thrown into disarray by obsession with an unnamed female colleague, with illness and an ex in the background and desire written in delicate, bird-like imagery.
Addie E. Citchens
A debut set in a Mississippi town where a prominent Black Baptist pastor's family unravels, told largely through the voices of the pastor's wife and her youngest son's girlfriend.
Lily King
A 1980s campus love triangle among three literature students, followed across thirty years, in Lily King's novel that works alongside Writers & Lovers but stands alone.
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.
Aria Aber
A debut about a 19-year-old Afghan German aspiring photographer who slips into Berlin's techno scene and a fraught affair with an older writer, told in a poet's lyrical prose.
Sanam Mahloudji
A multigenerational comic saga of an Iranian family's five women, divided between Tehran and New York, in which status, exile and long-held secrets collide.
Miranda July
A semi-famous artist in her mid-forties sets off on a road trip, stops thirty minutes from home and rebuilds her sense of self around a motel room; frank, funny and strange about midlife, desire and marriage.
Nussaibah Younis
A comic debut about a floundering academic who takes a UN job in Iraq running a rehabilitation programme for women who joined Islamic State, mixing satire of aid bureaucracy with real ethical questions.
Elizabeth Strout
Strout brings Lucy Barton and Olive Kitteridge together in a Maine town, around a murder case and a quiet almost-romance, in a warm and wandering novel about the stories people tell.
Priscilla Morris
Vivid sense of place