Independent Booksellers' Book PrizeShortlist

Given by Booksellers Association

Other Names: Booksellers Association Independent Booksellers' Book Prize Shortlist (French)
278 Works 309,926 Books 12,977 Reviews 4.1
The Independent Booksellers Book Award (IBW Book Award) is unique amongst book prizes as it is the only award chosen by independent booksellers in the UK.

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All, Winner (35), Shortlist (278)
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Years:
All, 2022 (23), 2021 (24), 2020 (20), 2019 (31), 2018 (21), 2017 (13), 2015 (20), 2014 (29), 2013 (19), 2012 (19), 2011 (21), 2010 (21), 2009 (10), 2008 (6), 2007 (1)

Shortlist 278

WorkCategoryYear
The Week at World's End by Emma CarrollChildren's Fiction2022
Frankenstiltskin: Fairy Tales Gone Bad by Joseph CoelhoChildren's Fiction2022
Escape Room by Christopher EdgeChildren's Fiction2022
The Last Bear by Hannah GoldChildren's Fiction2022
The Chime Seekers by Ross MontgomeryChildren's Fiction2022
When I Was the Greatest by Jason ReynoldsChildren's Fiction2022
The Women of Troy by Pat BarkerFiction2022
Piranesi by Susanna ClarkeFiction2022
Mrs Death Misses Death by Salena GoddenFiction2022
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo IshiguroFiction2022
The Lamplighters by Emma StonexFiction2022
Still Life by Sarah WinmanFiction2022
The Comfort Book by Matt HaigNon-Fiction2022
The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us by Nick HayesNon-Fiction2022
House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons by Kadiatu KannehNon-Fiction2022
How We Met: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures by Huma QureshiNon-Fiction2022
Scoff: A History of Food and Class in Britain by Pen VoglerNon-Fiction2022
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle ZaunerNon-Fiction2022
My Beautiful Voice by Joseph CoelhoPicture Book2022
Counting Creatures by Julia DonaldsonPicture Book2022
The Night The Moon Went Missing by Brendan KearneyPicture Book2022
A Song of Gladness: A Story of Hope for Us and Our Planet by Michael MorpurgoPicture Book2022
Arlo the Lion Who Couldn't Sleep by Catherine RaynerPicture Book2022
Tamarind & the Star of Ishta by Jasbinder BilanChildren's Fiction2021
Vi Spy: Licence to Chill - a brand new series from the bestselling author of WHO LET THE GODS OUT by Maz EvansChildren's Fiction2021
Voyage of the Sparrowhawk by Natasha FarrantChildren's Fiction2021
The Night Bus Hero by Onjali Q. RaufChildren's Fiction2021
The Great Godden by Meg RosoffChildren's Fiction2021
Windrush Child: a moving tale from BAFTA-award-winning Benjamin Zephaniah by Benjamin ZephaniahChildren's Fiction2021
The Midnight Library by Matt HaigFiction2021
Summerwater by Sarah MossFiction2021
Love After Love by Ingrid PersaudFiction2021
Such a Fun Age by Kiley ReidFiction2021
Shuggie Bain by Douglas StuartFiction2021
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger BregmanNon-Fiction2021
Hungry: A Memoir of Wanting More by Grace DentNon-Fiction2021
The Stubborn Light of Things: A Nature Diary by Melissa HarrisonNon-Fiction2021
Agent Sonya: Moscow's Most Daring Wartime Spy by Ben MacintyreNon-Fiction2021
My Name Is Why by Lemn SissayNon-Fiction2021
The Wild Silence by Raynor WinnNon-Fiction2021
Dog Gone by Rob BiddulphPicture Book2021
The Hospital Dog by Julia DonaldsonPicture Book2021
The Girl and the Dinosaur by Hollie HughesPicture Book2021
The Bear, the Piano and Little Bear's Concert by David LitchfieldPicture Book2021
Julián at the Wedding by Jessica LovePicture Book2021
Rain Before Rainbows by Smriti Prasadam-HallsPicture Book2021
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman2021
Deeplight by Frances HardingeChildren's Fiction2020
The Somerset Tsunami by Emma CarrollChildren’s Fiction2020
Chinglish by Sue CheungChildren’s Fiction2020
Toffee by Sarah CrossanChildren’s Fiction2020
The Star Outside My Window by Onjali RaufChildren’s Fiction2020
You Will Be Safe Here by Damian BarrFiction2020
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu KawaguchiFiction2020
The Offing by Benjamin MyersFiction2020
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia OwensFiction2020
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif ShafakFiction2020
No Win Race: A Story of Belonging, Britishness and Sport by Derek A. BardowellNon-Fiction2020
Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown by Anne Veronica Tennant Baroness GlenconnerNon-Fiction2020
War Doctor: Surgery on the Front Line by David NottNon-Fiction2020
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie RubenholdNon-Fiction2020
Extraordinary Insects by Anne Sverdrup-ThygesonNon-Fiction2020
Franklin and Luna Go to the Moon by Jen CampbellPicture Book2020
Animalphabet by Julia DonaldsonPicture Book2020
Alfie on Holiday by Shirley HughesPicture Book2020
I'm Sticking with You by Smriti Prasadam-HallsPicture Book2020
Greta and the Giants: inspired by Greta Thunberg's stand to save the world by Zoë TuckerPicture Book2020
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold by Stephen FryAdult2019
The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes GowarAdult2019
Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees by Thor HansonAdult2019
Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging by Afua HirschAdult2019
Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading by Lucy ManganAdult2019
Diversify by June SarpongAdult2019
The Language of Kindness: A Nurse's Story by Christie WatsonAdult2019
Educated: A Memoir by Tara WestoverAdult2019
The Salt Path by Raynor WinnAdult2019
A Cursed Delivery by P. G. BellChildren's2019
No Ballet Shoes in Syria by Catherine BrutonChildren's2019
The Weight of a Thousand Feathers by Brian ConaghanChildren's2019
Moonrise by Sarah CrossanChildren's2019
The Storm Keeper's Island by Catherine DoyleChildren's2019
The Clockwork Crow by Catherine FisherChildren's2019
The Steam Whistle Theatre Company by Vivian FrenchChildren's2019
The Skylarks' War by Hilary McKayChildren's2019
The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Q. RaufChildren's2019
Our Castle by the Sea by Lucy StrangeChildren's2019
The Day I Was Erased by Lisa ThompsonChildren's2019
Wundersmith: The Calling of Morrigan Crow by Jessica TownsendChildren's2019
The Girls by Lauren AcePicture Book2019
All the Ways to be Smart by Davina BellPicture Book2019
Franklin's Flying Bookshop by Jen CampbellPicture Book2019
The Cook and the King by Julia DonaldsonPicture Book2019
Girls Can Do Anything by Caryl HartPicture Book2019
The King Who Banned the Dark by Emily Haworth-BoothPicture Book2019
Everybody's Welcome by Patricia HegartyPicture Book2019
Ruby Finds a Worry (Big Bright Feelings) by Tom PercivalPicture Book2019
Under the Same Sky by Britta TeckentrupPicture Book2019
Little Bear's Spring by Elli WoollardPicture Book2019
Birdcage Walk by Helen DunmoreAdult2018
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor by Adam KayAdult2018
Life in the Garden by Penelope LivelyAdult2018
Midwinter Break by Bernard MacLavertyAdult2018
Elmet by Fiona MozleyAdult2018
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'FarrellAdult2018
How Not to Be a Boy by Robert WebbAdult2018
The Secret Life of Cows by Rosamund YoungAdult2018
A Skinful of Shadows by Frances HardingeChildren's2018
Letters from the Lighthouse by Emma CarrollChildren’s2018
The Bolds on Holiday by Julian ClaryChildren’s2018
We Come Apart by Sarah CrossanChildren’s2018
Sky Song by Abi ElphinstoneChildren’s2018
The 91-Story Treehouse by Andy GriffithsChildren’s2018
Release by Patrick NessChildren’s2018
Things a Bright Girl Can Do by Sally NichollsChildren’s2018
The Explorer by Katherine RundellChildren’s2018
A Spoonful of Murder by Robin StevensChildren’s2018
Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica TownsendChildren’s2018
The 1,000-year-old Boy by Ross WelfordChildren’s2018
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman2018
The Noise of Time by Julian BarnesAdult2017
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah HarariAdult2017
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul KalanithiAdult2017
The Running Hare: The secret life of farmland by John Lewis-StempelAdult2017
This Must Be the Place by Maggie O'FarrellAdult2017
The Essex Serpent by Sarah PerryAdult2017
The Good Immigrant: 21 Writers Explore What It Means to be Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic in Britain Today by Nikesh ShuklaAdult2017
Golden Hill by Francis SpuffordAdult2017
The One Memory of Flora Banks by Emily BarrChildren’s2017
Cogheart by Peter BunzlChildren’s2017
Strange Star by Emma CarrollChildren’s2017
Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth by Frank Cottrell BoyceChildren’s2017
The Shadow Keeper by Abi ElphinstoneChildren’s2017
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah HarariAdult2015
Elizabeth Is Missing by Emma HealeyAdult2015
Please, Mister Postman by Alan JohnsonAdult2015
H Is for Hawk by Helen MacdonaldAdult2015
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher: Stories by Hilary MantelAdult2015
The Children Act by Ian McEwanAdult2015
The Bone Clocks by David MitchellAdult2015
Nora Webster by Colm TóibínAdult2015
A Song for Ella Grey by David AlmondChildren’s2015
The Parent Agency by David BaddielChildren’s2015
Apple and Rain by Sarah CrossanChildren’s2015
The Apple Tart of Hope by Sarah Moore FitzgeraldChildren’s2015
The 13-Story Treehouse by Andy GriffithsChildren’s2015
The Lie Tree by Frances HardingeChildren’s2015
Running Girl by Simon MasonChildren’s2015
Itchcraft by Simon MayoChildren’s2015
The Farm Beneath the Water (Helen Peters Series) by Helen PetersChildren’s2015
Five Children on the Western Front by Kate SaundersChildren’s2015
Opal Plumstead by Jacqueline WilsonChildren’s2015
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard FlanaganFiction2015
Longbourn by Jo BakerAdult2014
The Quarry by Iain BanksAdult2014
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42 by William DalrympleAdult2014
The Broken Road: From the Iron Gates to Mount Athos by Patrick Leigh FermorAdult2014
The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves by Stephen GroszAdult2014
The Reason I Jump by Naoki HigashidaAdult2014
Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life by Nina StibbeAdult2014
The Goldfinch by Donna TarttAdult2014
Noble Conflict by Malorie BlackmanChildren's Fiction2014
The Reluctant Assassin by Eoin ColferChildren's Fiction2014
The Jolley-Rogers and the Ghostly Galleon by Jonny DuddleChildren's Fiction2014
Fortunately, the Milk by Neil GaimanChildren's Fiction2014
Half Bad by Sally GreenChildren's Fiction2014
Hero by Sarah LeanChildren's Fiction2014
The Worst Witch and the Wishing Star by Jill MurphyChildren's Fiction2014
More Than This by Patrick NessChildren's Fiction2014
Timmy Failure: Mistakes were made by Stephan PastisChildren's Fiction2014
Picture Me Gone by Meg RosoffChildren's Fiction2014
A Boy Called Hope by Lara WilliamsonChildren's Fiction2014
Hooray for Bread by Allan AhlbergChildren’s Picture Book2014
Extra Yarn by Mac BarnettChildren’s Picture Book2014
Meet the Parents by Peter BentlyChildren’s Picture Book2014
Mr. Tiger Goes Wild by Peter BrownChildren’s Picture Book2014
Aunt Amelia by Rebecca CobbChildren’s Picture Book2014
The Paper Dolls by Julia DonaldsonChildren’s Picture Book2014
Sugarlump and the Unicorn by Julia DonaldsonChildren’s Picture Book2014
The Crayon: A Colorful Tale About Friendship by Simon RickertyChildren’s Picture Book2014
The Pigeon Needs a Bath! by Mo WillemsChildren’s Picture Book2014
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman2014
Maggot Moon by Sally GardnerChildren’s2013
Matilda's Cat by Emily GravettChildren’s2013
Oh No, George! by Chris HaughtonChildren’s2013
The Sacrifice by Charlie HigsonChildren’s2013
Dear Scarlett by Fleur HitchcockChildren’s2013
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever by Jeff KinneyChildren’s2013
White Dolphin by Gill LewisChildren’s2013
Secret Hen House Theatre by Helen PetersChildren’s2013
Socks by Nick SharrattChildren’s2013
Gangsta Granny by David WalliamsChildren’s2013
Walking Home by Simon Armitage2013
HHhH by Laurent Binet2013
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo2013
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language by Mark Forsyth2013
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce2013
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver2013
Capital by John Lanchester2013
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel2013
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller2013
The Ring of Wind (Young Samurai, Book 7) by Chris BradfordChildren's2012
The Fear by Charlie HigsonChildren's2012
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth by Jeff KinneyChildren's2012
All Fall Down by Sally NichollsChildren's2012
Tom Gates: Everything's Amazing (Sort of) by Liz PichonChildren's2012
There Is No Dog by Meg RosoffChildren's2012
The Whizz Pop Chocolate Shop by Kate SaundersChildren's2012
Gates of Rome by Alex ScarrowChildren's2012
Ella by Alex T. SmithChildren's2012
Blood Red Road by Moira YoungChildren's2012
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes2012
On Canaan's Side by Sebastian Barry2012
Smut: two unseemly stories by Alan Bennett2012
Sarah Thornhill by Kate Grenville2012
All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945 by Max Hastings2012
Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas by Matthew Hollis2012
Pure by Andrew Miller2012
Before I Go to Sleep by S. J. Watson2012
My Dear I Wanted to Tell You by Louisa Young2012
School Days According to Humphrey by Betty G. BirneyChildren's2011
The Ring of Water (Young Samurai) by Chris BradfordChildren's2011
Dark Parallel by M. G. HarrisChildren's2011
The Thirteen Secrets by Michelle HarrisonChildren's2011
The Dead by Charlie HigsonChildren's2011
An Imaginary Menagerie (Puffin Books) by Roger McGoughChildren's2011
Shadow Wave by Robert MuchamoreChildren's2011
The Red Pyramid by Rick RiordanChildren's2011
Magicalamity by Kate SaundersChildren's2011
The Doomsday Code by Alex ScarrowChildren's2011
Ocean of Blood by Darren ShanChildren's2011
The Butterfly Isles: A Summer in Search of Our Emperors and Admirals by Patrick Barkham2011
The Hare with Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance by Edmund De Waal2011
The Betrayal by Helen Dunmore2011
The Man in the Wooden Hat by Jane Gardam2011
Empire of the Clouds: When Britain's Aircraft Ruled the World by James Hamilton-Paterson2011
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell2011
Skippy Dies by Paul Murray2011
Peter Pan's First XI: The Extraordinary Story of J. M. Barrie's Cricket Team by Kevin Telfer2011
The Empty Family: Stories by Colm Tóibín2011
The Forgotten Highlander : My Incredible Story of Survival during the War in the Far East by Alistair Urquhart2011
Cosmic by Frank Cottrell BoyceChildren's2010
The Unfinished Angel by Sharon CreechChildren's2010
Auslander by Paul DowswellChildren's2010
The Silver Blade by Sally GardnerChildren's2010
Dogs by Emily GravettChildren's2010
Ostrich Boys by Keith GrayChildren's2010
The Escape by Robert MuchamoreChildren's2010
Revolver by Marcus SedgwickChildren's2010
What's for Dinner, Mr Gum? by Andy StantonChildren's2010
The Last Leopard by Lauren St. JohnChildren's2010
Dog Loves Books by Louise YatesChildren's2010
The Outlander by Gil Adamson2010
Strangers by Anita Brookner2010
Mad Dogs and Englishmen: An Expedition Round My Family by Ranulph Fiennes2010
The Music Room by William Fiennes2010
The Other Half Lives by Sophie Hannah2010
The Horse Boy: A Father's Quest to Heal His Son by Rupert Isaacson2010
An Equal Stillness by Francesca Kay2010
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel2010
The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels2010
One Day by David Nicholls2010
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga2009
Somewhere Towards the End: A Memoir by Diana Athill2009
When Will There Be Good News? by Kate Atkinson2009
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry2009
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini2009
Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sacks2009
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer2009
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith2009
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale2009
Spilling the Beans by Clarissa Dickson Wright2009
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett2008
I'm Really Ever So Not Well by Lauren Child2008
The Gathering by Anne Enright2008
Snakehead by Anthony Horowitz2008
Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones2008
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling2008
The Mathematics of Sex: How Biology and Society Conspire to Limit Talented Women and Girls by Stephen J. Ceci2007

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