It's a wide and varied list this year and we’re thrilled to see so many of the shortlisted books are available as audio downloads. The shortlisted titles and authors are:
Reader’s Digest Author of the Year
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Khaled Hosseini
- Doris Lessing
- Ian McEwan
- David Peace
Tesco Biography of the Year Award
- Agent Zigzag by Ben MacIntyre
- The Blair Years by Alastair Campbell
- My Booky Wook by Russell Brand
- On The Edge by Richard Hammond
- Spilling the Beans by Clarissa Dickson-Wright
Books Direct Crime Thriller of the Year Award
- Bad Luck and Trouble by Lee Child
- Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell
- The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke
- Exit Music by Ian Rankin
- The Grave Tattoo by Val McDermid
Waterstone’s Newcomer of the Year Award
- The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney
- Imperial Life in the Emerald City by Rajiv Chandrasekaran
- What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn
- Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Sainsbury’s Popular Fiction Award
- The Ghost by Robert Harris
- An Absolute Scandal by Penny Vincenzi
- The House at Riverton by Kate Morton
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
- The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
Play.com Popular Non-Fiction Award - Nigella Express by Nigella Lawson
- A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr
- Don't Stop Me Now by Jeremy Clarkson
- Long Way Down by Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman
- The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane
Richard and Judy’s Best Read of the Year
- Blood River by Tim Butcher
- Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones
- A Quiet Belief in Angels by R J Ellory
- The Rose of Sebastopol by Katharine McMahon
- Notes From an Exhibition by Patrick Gale
- A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
- The Visible World by Mark Slouka
- The Welsh Girl by Peter Ho Davies
- Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
- Random Acts of Heroic Love by Danny Scheinmann
WH Smith Children’s Book of the Year
- Kiss by Jacqueline Wilson
- Born to Run by Michael Morpurgo
- That's Not My Penguin by Fiona Watt
- My Pony Care Book by Katie Price
- Horrid Henry and the Abominable Snowman by Francesca Simon
Julie Murphy, Online Editor
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