In the Group Stage, the thirty-two books are randomly assigned to eight groups.
The judges for each group read all four books, and their composite rankings identify
the top two books in each group, which then move on to the knock-out bracket.
​The Group Stage ends Monday, Sept. 19, 2022.
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Group A

• The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
• The Measure
  
• O Beautiful
  
• Intimacies
  

Group B

• The Book of Form and Emptiness
• Olga Dies Dreaming
  
• This Time Tomorrow
  
• Memphis
  

Group C

• Kaikeyi
• Portrait of a Thief
• Nuclear Family
  
• Sea of Tranquility
  

Group D

• Small World
• The Sentence
  
• Honor
  
• ​Matrix
  

Group E

• The Apollo Murders
• Our Country Friends
  
• Invisible Things
  
• When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East
  

Group F

• Booth
• Young Mungo
  
• The Violin Conspiracy
  
• Counterfeit
  

Group G

• The Evening Hero
• The Cartographers
  
• Beautiful World, Where Are You
• Yerba Buena
  

Group H

• The King of Infinite Space
• Trust
  
• While Justice Sleeps
  
• Harlem Shuffle