Waterstones Book of the Year shortlist announced

UK bookselling chain Waterstones has announced the shortlist for its annual Book of the Year award.

The 10 shortlisted titles are:

• The Marriage Portrait (Maggie O’Farrell, Tinder Press)
• Heartstopper Volume 1 (Alice Oseman, Hodder Children’s Books)
• Lessons in Chemistry (Bonnie Garmus, Doubleday)
• The Escape Artist (Jonathan Freedland, John Murray)
• Otherlands (Thomas Halliday, Allen Lane)
• The Story of Art Without Men (Katy Hessel, Hutchinson Heinemann)
• In The Golden Mole (Katherine Rundell, illus by Talya Baldwin, Faber)
• Cooking (Jeremy Lee, Fourth Estate)
• Babel (R F Kuang, HarperVoyager)
• Skandar and the Unicorn Thief (A F Steadman, S&S Children’s).

The shortlist is drawn up by Waterstones booksellers who each nominate a book they think is outstanding and would recommend to readers. The winner will be announced on 1 December.

Last year’s winner was Paul McCartney for The Lyrics: 1956 to the present (Allen Lane). For more information about the shortlisted titles visit the Waterstones website.

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