Nominees | International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

Last Man in Tower
Aravind Adiga

The Keeper of Lost Causes
Jussi Adler-Olsen

What the Family Needed
Steven Amsterdam

Bountiful Famine
Sheg Aranmolate

Dirty Feet
Edem Awumey

Tell It To The Trees
Anita Rau Badami

The Sense of an Ending
Julian Barnes

City of Bohane
Kevin Barry

On Canaan’s Side
Sebastian Barry

The Sly Company of People Who Care
Rahul Bhattacharya

Jamrach’s Menagerie
Carol Birch

Beggar’s Feast
Randy Boyagoda

When the Killing’s Done
T.C. Boyle

The Absolutist
John Boyne

The Cocaine Salesman
Conny Braam

The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine
Alina Bronsky

Estuary
Sam Bunny

The Dulang Washer
Paul Callan

The Potter’s Field
Andrea Camilleri

Temporary Perfections
Gianrico Carofiglio

Spirit of Progress
Steven Carroll

Awakened
P.C. and Kristen Cast

My Two Worlds
Sergio Chejfec

Wulf
Hamish Clayton

The Grief of Others
Leah Hager Cohen

Red on Red
Edward Conlon

Julia
Otto de Kat

The Book of Doubt
Teresa de Loo

Underground Time
Delphine de Vigan

The Sisters Brothers
Patrick de Witt

The Language of Flowers
Vanessa Diffenbaugh

The Time In Between
Maria Dueñas

Lightning
Jean Echenoz

The Prague Cemetery
Umberto Eco

Half-Blood Blues
Esi Edugyan

A Cupboard Full of Coats
Yvvette Edwards

Against Art
Tomas Espedal

The Marriage Plot
Jeffrey Eugenides

Assumption
Percival Everett

Waiting for Robert Capa
Susana Fortes

All That I Am
Anna Funder

Kafka’s Friend
Miro Gavran

The Dinosaur Feather
Sissel-Jo Gazan

River of Smoke
Amitav Ghosh

Say Her Name
Francisco Goldman

Sarah Thornhill
Kate Grenville

Ed King
David Guterson

Our Lady of Alice Bhatti
Mohammed Hanif

The Art of Fielding
Chad Harbach

Remember Ben Clayton
Stephen Harrigan

Gillespie and I
Jane Harris

Into the Darkest Corner
Elizabeth Haynes

Long Time, No See
Dermot Healy

Ten Thousand Saints
Eleanor Henderson

Alice
Judith Hermann

Cold Eye of Heaven
Christine Dwyer Hickey

The Thread
Victoria Hislop

The Dovekeepers
Alice Hoffman

The Stranger’s Child
Alan Hollinghurst

The Map and the Territory by Michael Houellebecq

The Map and the Territory
Michel Houllebecq

The Reinvention of Love
Helen Humphreys

The Summer Without Men
Siri Hustvedt

Child Wonder
Roy Jacobsen

Death Comes to Pemberley
P.D. James

The Lightning Field
Heather Jessup

Hell is Empty
Craig Johnson

A World Elsewhere
Wayne Johnston

Five Bells
Gail Jones

Silver Sparrow
Tayari Jones

When She Woke
Hillary Jordan

Dagny or a Love Feast
Zurab Karumidze

The Hypnotist
Lars Kepler

11/22/63
Stephen King

The Sojourn
Andrew Krivak

The Return
Dany Laferrière

The Dewey Decimal System
Nathan Larson

Hut of Fallen Persimmons
Adriana Lisboa

How It All Began
Penelope Lively

A Man of Parts
David Lodge

A Possible Madness
Frank Macdonald

The Borrower
Rebecca Makkai

The Larnachs
Owen Marshall

The Girl in the Blue Beret
Bobbie Ann Mason

Anatomy of a Disappearance
Hisham Matar

Twice Born
Margaret Mazzantini

The Paris Wife
Paula McLain

To Be Sung Underwater
Tom McNeal

Foal’s Bread
Gillian Mears

Snowdrops
A. D. Miller

Pure
Andrew Miller

Autumn Laing
Alex Miller

A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked In
Magnus Mills

The Mark
Blazhe Minevski

Cold Light
Frank Moorhouse

The Night Circus
Erin Morgenstern

Rangatira
Paula Morris

Tyrant Memory
Horacio Castellanos Moya

1Q84
Haruki Murakami

Accabadora
Michela Murgia

The Town that Drowned
Riel Nason

Niko
Dimitri Nasrallah

The Second Coming
John Niven

Duke
Rozlan Mohd Noor

Emily Alone
Stewart O'Nan

The Tiger’s Wife
Tea Obreht

The Cat’s Table
Michael Ondaatje

The Buddha in the Attic
Julie Otsuka

Damned
Chuck Palahniuk

The Map of Time
Félix J. Palma

Past the Shallows
Favel Parrett

State of Wonder
Ann Patchett

Part of the Solution
Ulrich Peltzer

The Invisible Ones
Stef Penney

The Street Sweeper
Elliot Perlman

The Tragedy of Arthur
Arthur Phillips

Funeral for a Dog
Thomas Pletzinger

The Conductor
Sarah Quigley

Half of the Human Race
Anthony Quinn

Splithead
Julya Rabinowich

Incidents in the Life of Markus Paul
David Adams Richards

Easy to Like
Edward Riche

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs

The Goat Woman of Largo Bay
Gillian Royes

Russell-Mary-Doria

Doc
Mary Doria Russell

Swamplandia!
Karen Russell

Adam and Evelyn
Ingo Schulze

The Emperor of Lies
Steve Sem-Sandberg

Dancing Lessons
Olive Senior

13, Rue Thérèse
Elena Mauli Shapiro

Please Look After Mom
Kyung-Sook Shin

Portrait of a Spy
Daniel Silva

The Iron Fence
Neluka Silva

From the Mouth of the Whale
Sjón

The Faster I Walk, The Smaller I Am
Kjersti A. Skomsvold

Everybody’s Right
Paolo Sorrentino

Wish You Were Here
Grahan Swift

Learning to Pray in the Age of Technique
Gonçalo M. Tavares

We the Animals
Justin Torres

The Truth about Marie
Jean-Philippe Toussaint

Rules of Civility
Amor Towles

A Good Man
Guy Vanderhaeghe

Caribou Island
David Vann

The Submission
Amy Waldman

Salvage the Bones
Jesmyn Ward

double talk
Patrick Warner

Before I Go To Sleep
S.J. Watson

Bed
David Whitehouse

Caesarion
Tommy Wieringa

When God was a Rabbit
Sarah Winman

My Dear, I Wanted To Tell You
Lisa Young

Touch
Alexi Zentner

The Warsaw Anagrams
Richard Zimler

The Five Wonders of the Danube
Zoran Živković