Mako Prize 2019

2019 Longlist

  • A Ladder to the Sky – John Boyne
  • An Orchestra of Minorities – Chigozie Obioma
  • Ask Again, Yes – Mary Beth Keane
  • Boy Swallows Universe – Trent Dalton
  • City of Girls – Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Daisy Jones & the Six – Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Fleishman Is in Trouble – Taffy Brodesser-Akner
  • Gingerbread – Helen Oyeyemi
  • Killing Commendatore – Haruki Murakami
  • Melmoth – Sarah Perry
  • My Sister, the Serial Killer – Oyinkan Braithwaite
  • Normal People – Sally Rooney
  • Ohio – Stephen Markley
  • Once Upon a River – Diane Setterfield
  • The Chelsea Girls – Fiona Davis
  • The Dreamers – Karen Thompson Walker​
  • ​​The Editor – Steven Rowley
  • The Far Field – Madhuri Vijay
  • The Friend – Sigrid Nunez
  • The Golden Hour – Beatriz Williams
  • The Huntress – Kate Quinn
  • The Island of Sea Women – Lisa See
  • The Nickel Boys – Colson Whitehead
  • The Night Tiger – Yangsze Choo
  • The River – Peter Heller
  • The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna – Juliet Grames
  • The Silence of the Girls – Pat Barker
  • The Third Hotel – Laura van den Berg
  • Transcription – Kate Atkinson
  • Unsheltered – Barbara Kingsolver
  • Where the Crawdads Sing – Delia Owens
  • Women Talking – Miriam Toews