أعلنت جوائز القراء 2018، اليوم، الجمعة، عن القائمة القصيرة، فى فروعها الثمانية، وهى جوائز تنظمها المكتبات للقراء، ويتم التصويت عليها إلكترونيا، وشهدت فى دورتها الثالثة، هذا العام إضافة فرع الشعر، إلى جانب سبع جوائز أخرى من بينها الرواية وغير الروائية وفئتين للكتب المكتوبة للقراء الأصغر سنا.
سيتم اختيار سبعة من القوائم المختصرة من قبل بائعى الكتب فى المملكة المتحدة وأيرلندا، فى حين أن جائزة اختيار القراء، التي تم ترشيحها والتصويت لها بالكامل من قبل محبى الكتب.
Novel Award shortlist 2018
Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie
The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar
Midwinter Break by Bernard MacLaverty
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
Tin Man by Sarah Winman
The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce
Non-Fiction Award shortlist 2018
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell
The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell
Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig
Educated by Tara Westover
The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It’s Broken by The Secret Barrister
How Not To Be a Boy by Robert Webb
Poetry Award shortlist 2018
She Must Be Mad by Charly Cox
Off the Shelf: A Celebration of Bookshops in Verse edited by Carol Ann Duffy
England: Poems from a School edited by Kate Clanchy
100 Poems by Seamus Heaney.
The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind and Soul by William Sieghart
The Last Hedgehog by Pam Ayres, illustrated by Alice Tait
Young Readers - Middle Grade Award shortlist 2018
Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend
The 1,000-year-old Boy by Ross Welford
A Spoonful of Murder by Robin Stevens
Brightstorm by Vashti Hardy
Stories for Boys Who Dare to be Different by Ben Brooks and Quinton Winter
The Storm Keeper's Island by Catherine Doyle
Young Readers - YA Award shortlist 2018
Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One by Philip Pullman
A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge
Where the World Ends by Geraldine McCaughrean
A Sky Painted Gold by Laura Wood
Bookshop Girl by Chloe Coles
Breakthrough Author Award shortlist 2018
A J Pearce (Dear Mrs Bird)
Tommy Orange (There There)
Polly Clark (Larchfield)
Joe Heap (The Rules of Seeing)
Laura Carlin (The Wicked Cometh)
Preti Taneja (We That Are Young)
Sarah J. Harris (The Colour of Bee Larkham’s Murder)
Sophie Mackintosh (The Water Cure)
Readers' Choice Award 2018
وهى جائزة مخصصة للقراء للكتابة عن الكتب التى نالت إعجابهم على مدار العام وتنتظر من القراء إرسال عروضهم للكتب.
Beautiful Book Award shortlist 2018
A Sky Painted Gold by Laura Wood; cover artist: Yehrin Tong
Bookworm by Lucy Mangan; production: Shabana Cho; design: Julia Connolly; illustration: Laura Barrett
Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively design: Chris Bentham; illustration: Katie Scott
The Librarian by Sally Vickers; design: Edward Bettinson
The Wood: The Life & Times of Cockshutt Wood by John Lewis-Stempel; design: Beci Kelly; illustration: Nick Hayes
Virago Modern Classics 40th anniversary series, designed by Hannah Wood, illustrated by Yehrin Tong
