GLASS BELL AWARD LONG LIST 2025

Goldsboro Books revealed the Long List for the 2025 Glass Bell Award, celebrating the very best storytelling across all genres of contemporary fiction. Launched in 2017, the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award is awarded annually to outstanding work of contemporary fiction, rewarding quality storytelling in any genre. 

Glass Bell Award Long List

The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden (Century, PRH)
The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands by Sarah Brooks (W&N, Orion)
The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown (Transworld, PRH)
James by Percival Everett (Picador & Mantle, Pan Macmillan)
The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey (Hutchinson Heinemann, PRH)
The Silverblood Promise by James Logan (Arcadia, Quercus Books)
Hunted by Abir Mukherjee (Vintage, PRH)
Berlin Duet by S. W. Perry (Corvus, Atlantic Books)
A Little Trickerie by Rosanna Pike (Fig Tree, PRH)
There Are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak (Viking, PRH)
The Kellerby Code by Jonny Sweet (Faber & Faber)
All the Colours of the Dark by Chris Whitaker (Orion Books)

(nominees in bold reflect crime fiction)

2024 GLASS BELL AWARD

London’s Goldsboro Books announced its Shortlist for the 2024 Glass Bell Award, which “celebrates the very best in contemporary fiction.” 

In Memoriam, by Alice Wynn (Viking)
Clytemnestra, by Costanza Casati (Michael Joseph)
Strange Sally Diamond, by Liz Nugent (Sandycove)
Lady Macbethad, by Isabelle Schuler (Bloomsbury Raven)
The Square of Sevens, by Laura Shepherd Robinson (Mantle)
The Turnglass, by Gareth Rubin (Simon & Schuster)

The winner will be announced September 26, at Goldsboro Books’ 25th birthday party. 

Sad to say, I have only read Strange Sally Diamond. It's brilliant. I'm looking forward to reading the others on the list. 

2020 GOLDSBORO BOOKS GLASS BELL AWARD SHORTLIST

The shortlist for the 2020 Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award was announced.

Blood & Sugar by Laura Shepherd-Robinson (Mantle) 
Daisy Jones and the Six, by Taylor Jenkins Reid (Cornerstone) 
Girl, Woman, Other, by Bernardine Evaristo (Hamish Hamilton) 
The Lost Ones, by Anita Frank (HQ) 
My Sister, the Serial Killer, by Oyinkan Braithwaite (Atlantic)
The Starless Sea, by Erin Morgenstern (Harvill Secker)

The Glass Bell Award, sponsored by London bookseller Goldsboro Books, celebrates “the best storytelling across contemporary fiction.” This year’s winner will be announced on July 2.

HT: The Rap Sheet