Booker Prize List

It is 1988, and Saul Adler, a narcissistic young historian, has been invited to Communist East Berlin to conduct research. In return, he must write a flattering essay about the German Democratic Republic. As a gift for his translator’s sister, Saul’s girlfriend plans to...

“To mother is to murder—or close enough,” Johanna muses, reflecting on the Norwegian words. Recently widowed and back in Oslo after a long absence, she is preparing a retrospective of her work, much of which centers on motherhood. Some of her more provocative paintings...

An ordinary village an hour from London—pub, church, cottages, and familiar voices of love, work, and gossip—hides something extraordinary. Dead Papa Toothwort, a mythical figure drawn by local children, awakens from a long sleep, listening to the village and searching for a mischievous, ethereal...

Sofia, a young anthropologist, has spent much of her life trying to unravel the mystery of her mother’s inexplicable illness. She’s often exasperated by Rose’s endless complaints, yet secretly relieved to be summoned away from her own faltering adult life. Together, they travel to...

A woman leaves her homeland to keep house for her brother in the remote northern country of their ancestors after his wife abandons him. As strange events unsettle the isolated community, suspicion turns toward the newcomer. With an atmosphere of quiet dread, Study for...

The story follows István, a shy Hungarian teenager whose difficult transition to a new town leaves him isolated from his classmates, his mother, and eventually even himself. After a series of formative events abruptly changes the course of his youth, István moves through adulthood...