| Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld | The Bee Sting by Paul Murray | A House for Alice by Diane Evans |
| The Happy Couple by Naoise Dolan | The Ferryman by Justin Cronin | August Blue by Deborah Levy |
| Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward | The Ghost Theatre by Mat Osman | Big Swiss by Jen Beagin |
| Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton | Fire Rush by Jacqueline Crooks | The World and all it Holds by Aleksander Hemon |
| Penance by Eliza Clark | In Ascension by Martin MacInnes | The Bandit Queens by Parini Shroff |
| The New Life by Tom Crewe | Victory City by Salman Rushdie | Kala by Colin Walsh |
| The Short End of Sonnenallee by Thomas Brussig | The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis | The Rachel Incident by Caroline O’Donoghue |
| Wandering Souls by Cecile Pin | For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain by Victoria MacKenzie | Old Babes in the Wood by Margaret Atwood |
| Time Come by Linton Kwesi Johnson | God is an Octopus by Ben Goldsmith | The Power of Trees by Peter Wohlleben |
| Radical: A life of my own by Xiaolu Guo | Awe by Dacher Keltner | The Wager by David Grann |
| An Uneasy Inheritance by Polly Toynbee | The Real Work by Adam Gopnik | End Times by Peter Turchin |
| Reach for the Stars by Michael Cragg | The Earth Transformed by Peter Frankopan | Friendaholic by Elizabeth Day |
| Ultra-processed People by Chris Van Tulleken | Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver | Trespasses by Louise Kennedy |
| Bad Actors by Mick Herron | Constructing a Nervous System by Margo Jefferson | |
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