Nominated English Title

Author

Publisher of Nominated Edition

A Curious Intimacy

Jessica White

Penguin Books Australia

A Good and Happy Child

Justin Evans

Shaye Areheart Books

A Handbook to Luck

Cristina García

Alfred A. Knopf

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini

Bloomsbury Publishing / Riverhead Books / Penguin Books Canada

After Dark – Translated from the original Japanese by Jay Rubin

Haruki Murakami

Harvill Secker

After Tears

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Kwela Books

Animal's People

Indra Sinha

Simon & Schuster

Away

Amy Bloom

Random House Inc.

Be Mine

Laura Kasischke

Harcourt

Between Each Breath

Adam Thorpe

Jonathan Cape

Breakfast with Buddha

Roland Merullo

Algonquin Books

Burma Boy

Biyi Bandele

Jonathan Cape

Burning Bright

Tracy Chevalier

HarperCollins Publishers

by George

Wesley Stace

Little, Brown & Company

Call Me By Your Name

André Aciman

Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Castorp – Translated from the original Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

Pawel Huelle

Serpents Tail Ltd.

Coal Black Horse

Robert Olmstead

Algonquin Books

Consequences

Penelope Lively

Viking Penguin

Custer's Brother's Horse

Edwin Shrake

John M. Hardy Publishing Company

Dante’s Ballad – Translated from the original Spanish by Susan Giersbach Rascón

Eduardo González Viaña

Arte Público Press

Day

A.L. Kennedy

Jonathan Cape

Delirium – Translated from the original Spanish by Natasha Wimmer

Laura Restrepo

Vintage International / Nan A. Talese / Doubleday

Diary of a Bad Year

J.M. Coetzee

Harvill Secker

Divisadero

Michael Ondaatje

Bloomsbury Publishing / McClelland & Stewart Inc. / Alfred A. Knopf

Doghead – Translated from the original Danish by Tiina Nunnally

Morten Ramsland

Doubleday (London)

Drybread

Owen Marshall

Random House New Zealand

Edwin + Matilda

Laurence Fearnley

Penguin Group USA Inc.

Effigy

Alissa York

Random House Canada

Engleby

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Sebastian Faulks

Hutchinson

Escape – Translated from the original Dutch by Jantien Black

Heleen Van Royen

Black Swan

Exit Ghost

Philip Roth

Jonathan Cape

Exit Music

Ian Rankin

Orion Publishing

Falling Man

Don De Lillo

Scribner / Picador

Feelings Expiry Date – Translated from the original Bulgarian by Irina Cherkelova

Yordanka Mineva

Hristo Botev Publishing House

Fieldwork

Mischa Berlinski

Farrar, Straus & Giroux

García's Heart

Liam Durcan

McClelland & Stewart Inc.

Ghostwalk

Rebecca Stott

Spiegel & Grau

Girl meets boy

Ali Smith

Canongate Books

Girls of Riyadh – Translated from the original Arabic by Rajaa Alsanea and Marilyn Booth

Rajaa Alsanea

Penguin Group USA Inc.

Gold

Dan Rhodes

Canongate Books

Gregorius – Translated from the original Swedish by Silvester Mazzarella

Bengt Ohlsson

Portobello Books Ltd.

Harpsong

Rilla Askew

University of Oklahoma Press

Holy Hill

Angelina N. Sithebe

Umuzi

Ishq and Mushq

Priya Basil

Black Swan

Jamestown

Matthew Sharpe

Soft Skull Press Inc.

Knots

Nuruddin Farah

Riverhead Books

Landscape of Farewell

Alex Miller

Allen & Unwin

Last Night at the Lobster

Stewart O’Nan

Viking Penguin

Late Nights on Air

Elizabeth Hay

McClelland & Stewart Inc.

Life Class

Pat Barker

Hamish Hamilton Ltd.

Lost City Radio

Daniel Alarcón

HarperCollins Publishers

Lost Paradise – Translated from the original Dutch by Susan Massotty

Cees Nooteboom

Harvill Secker

Love and the Platypus

Nicholas Drayson

Scribe Publications

Love Falls

Esther Freud

Bloomsbury Publishing

Love Life – Translated from the original Dutch by Shaun Whiteside

Ray Kluun

St. Martins Press

Lucky Bastard

Peter Wells

Vintage RHNZ

Luncheon of the Boating Party

Susan Vreeland

Viking Penguin

Man Gone Down

Michael Thomas

Grove / Atlantic Inc.

Matters of Honor

Louis Begley

Alfred A. Knopf

Measuring Time

Helon Habila

Hamish Hamilton Ltd.

Mr. Allbones’ Ferrets

Fiona Farrell

Vintage RHNZ

Notes from an Exhibition

Patrick Gale

Fourth Estate / Flamingo

October

Richard B. Wright

HarperCollins Canada

Omega Minor – Translated from the original Dutch by Paul Verhaeghen

Paul Verhaeghen

Dalkey Archive Press

On Chesil Beach

Ian McEwan

Vintage Canada / Knopf Canada / Jonathan Cape / Nan A. Talese/Doubleday

Other Country

Stephen Scourfield

Allen & Unwin

Quarter Tones

Susan Mann

Harvill Secker

Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey

Chuck Palahniuk

Doubleday USA

Ravel – Translated from the original French by Linda Coverdale

Jean Echenoz

The New Press

Reading the Ceiling

Dayo Forster

Simon & Schuster

Redemption Falls

Joseph O’Connor

Harvill Secker

Remembering the Bones

Frances Itani

HarperCollins Canada

Rocking Horse Road

Carl Nixon

Random House New Zealand

Rough Justice

Ralph Palmer

Run

Ann Patchett

Bloomsbury Publishing / HarperCollins USA

Secrets of the Sea

Nicholas Shakespeare

Harvill Secker

Skylark Farm – Translated from the original Italian by Geoffrey Brock

Antonia Arslan

Alfred A. Knopf

Slam

Nick Hornby

Penguin

Soucouyant

David Chariandy

Arsenal Pulp Press

Spanish Fly

Will Ferguson

Penguin Books Canada

Tales from the Town of Widows & Chronicles from the Land of Men

James Cañón

HarperCollins USA

The Architects Are Here

Michael Winter

Penguin Books Canada

The Archivist's Story

Travis Holland

Dial Press

The Bad Girl – Translated from the original Spanish by Edith Grossman

Mario Vargas Llosa

Farrar, Straus & Giroux

The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

Dinaw Mengestu

Riverhead Books

The Birthday Party

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Panos Karnezis

Jonathan Cape

The Book of Negroes

Lawrence Hill

HarperCollins, Canada

The Book of Words – Translated from the original German by Susan Bernofsky

Jenny Erpenbeck

New Directions Publishing Corporation

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Junot Díaz

Riverhead Books

The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles – Translated from the original Norwegian by Don Bartlett and Don Shaw

Roy Jacobsen

John Murray (Publishers)

The Butterfly Month – Translated from the original Dutch by Faith Hunter

Ariëlla Kornmehl

Scribe Publications

The Camel Bookmobile

Masha Hamilton

HarperCollins USA

The Carhullan Army

Sarah Hall

Faber & Faber

The Cleft

Doris Lessing

HarperCollins USA

The Devil's Footprints

John Burnside

Jonathan Cape

The Dinner Club – Translated from the original Dutch by Paul Vincent

Saskia Noort

Bitter Lemon Press

The Gathering

Anne Enright

Jonathan Cape / Vintage / Grove / Atlantic Inc.

The Good Father

Marion Husband

Accent Press Ltd

The Gravedigger's daughter

Joyce Carol Oates

Ecco Press

The Gum Thief

Douglas Coupland

Random House Canada

The Hangman's Game

Karen King-Aribisala

Peepal Tree Press Ltd.

The Indian Clerk

David Leavitt

Bloomsbury Publishing

The Lost Diary of Don Juan

Douglas Carlton Abrams

Weidenfeld & Nicolson

The Lost Highway

David Adams Richards

Doubleday Canada

The Maytrees

Annie Dillard

HarperCollins USA

The Memory Room

Christopher Koch

Random House Australia

The Milk Chicken Bomb

Andrew Wedderburn

Coach House Books

The Ministry of Special Cases

Nathan Englander

Alfred A. Knopf

The Mire – Translated from the original Bulgarian by Nedyalka Chakalova

Krassin Krastev

Hristo Botev Publishing House

The Model – Translated from the original Norwegian by Don Bartlett

Lars Saabye Christensen

Arcadia Books

The Opposite House

Helen Oyeyemi

Nan A. Talese / Doubleday

The Outlander

Gil Adamson

House of Anansi Press

The Painter of Battles – Translated from the original Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden

Arturo Pé­rez-Reverte

Weidenfeld & Nicolson

The Past – Translated from the original Spanish by Nick Caistor

Alan Pauls

Harvill Secker

The Past is a Foreign Country – Translated from the original Italian by Howard Curtis

Gianrico Carofiglio

Old Street Publishing Ltd.

The Pirate's Daughter

Margaret Cezair-Thompson

Headline Review

The President's Last Love – Translated from the original Russian by George Bird

Andrey Kurkov

Harvill Secker

The Quiet Girl – Translated from the original Danish by Nadia Christensen

Peter Høeg

Farrar, Straus & Giroux / Harvill Secker

The Rain Before It Falls

Jonathan Coe

Viking

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Moshin Hamid

Hamish Hamilton Ltd. / Doubleday Canada / Harcourt

The Road Home

Rose Tremain

Chatto & Windus

The Seamstress

Geraldine Wooller

UWA Press

The Secret of Lost Things

Sheridan Hay

The Septembers of Shiraz

Dalia Sofer

Ecco Press

The Seventh Gate

Richard Zimler

Constable & Robinson

The Shadow Catcher

Marianne Wiggins

Simon & Schuster

The Stone Gods

Jeanette Winterson

Hamish Hamilton Ltd.

The Succubus - Translated from the original Slovenian by Rawley Grau and Nikolai Jeffs

Vlado Žabot

Slovene Writers Association

The Theory of Clouds – Translated from the original French by Timothy Bent

Stéphane Audeguy

Harcourt

The Time We Have Taken

Steven Carroll

HarperCollins Australia

The Trout Opera

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Matthew Condon

Vintage Australia

The Uncommon Reader

Alan Bennett

Farrar, Straus & Giroux

The Visible World

Mark Slouka

Portobello Books Ltd.

The Welsh Girl

Peter Ho Davies

Houghton Mifflin

The Widow and her Hero

Thomas Keneally

Sceptre

The Worst Intentions – Translated from the original Italian by Ann Goldstein

Alessandro Piperno

Europa Editions

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

Michael Chabon

Fourth Estate / HarperCollins USA

Then We Came To The End

Joshua Ferris

Little, Brown & Company

Tomorrow

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Graham Swift

Picador

Tree of Smoke

Denis Johnson

Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Uprising

Margaret Peterson Haddix

Simon & Schuster

Vie Française

– Translated from the original French by Linda Coverdale

Jean-Paul Dubois

Alfred A. Knopf

What Was Lost

Catherine O’Flynn

Tindal Street Press

Where Three Roads Meet

Salley Vickers

Canongate Books

Where White Horses Gallop

Beatrice MacNeil

Key Porter Books

World Without End

Ken Follett

Dutton