One Hundred and Two Books Advance to the BookLife Prize Quarterfinals
One hundred and two books from five genres advanced to the quarterfinal round of the 2020 Fiction BookLife Prize. Please note that while all books have been processed and assessed, due to the large number of submissions, we are still editing a small number of Critic's Reports, all of which will be completed by October 28.
Selected by the editorial staffs of Publishers Weekly and Booklife, the quarterfinalists are as follows:
General Fiction
Arequipa
The Bodies That Move
Crazy Free
Daisy
Ernestine
The Lockhart Women
The Madness of Grief
The New Manifesto
Peace, Love, and Cockroaches
Silver Bottle
Susan
Tatiana and the Russian Wolves
Wave Dancing
Year of the Sheep
Mystery/Thriller
The Arsonist’s Handbook
Barking for Business
Burnt to a Crisp
Cold Wallet
Dashiell Hammett and the Hearst Castle Mystery
Death Count
D-Notice
Fate of the Unwilling
The Fourth String
Ghost Daughter
Kobani
Midnight Black
The Tree of Knowledge
Whipped Cream and Piano Wire
Without Sin
Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
Anchored
Annasland
The Bone Elixir
By the Sea
The Conjuring of Zoth-Avarex: The Self-Proclaimed Greatest Dragon in the Multiverse
Identicals
Mage's Mountain
The Mummy of Monte Cristo
The Normandy Club
Pike's Passage
Religion Without A God: A Novel
A Simple Thought of Sanity
Skunk Ape Semester
TARO
The Transcendent
Water Must Fall
Romance/Erotica
Behind the Seams
Boudreaux's Lady
Crossed by the Stars
The Earl of Morrey
Farview
Finding Home
Goldie and the Billionaire Bear
King of Beasts (Beast Duet, Book #1)
One Way Ticket
A Rake Like You
Rendezvous in Paradise
Rhyker's Key
Rock Star
Rose Through Time
This Can't Be the Last Time
YA/Middle Grade
The Adventures of Charlie Marley
Always the New Girl
Blue
Bridal Train: The Further Adventures of Chloe, Dudette of the West
Chosen Guardian
A Country of Their Own
The Dark Realm
David Bishop and the Legend of the Orb
The Eye of Odin
Eye of the Turtle
Fae’s Deception
Fedor
Fever Dreams and the End of Things
Finding Fae
Fishing for Luck
Freckles
A Friend Like Filby
Ghost Hunters: Bones in the Wall
The Kid Code Mysteries
The Last Golden Light
Light Guardian
The Main Dish
Malini in Whirlwood
Mandalay Hawk’s Dilemma: The United States of Anthropocene
The Misadventures of George and the Talking Butt
Mishka
Nobody’s Business
Orphan’s Bond
Orpheus Rising
Rebels of Akrona
Secrets of a Sleep Leaper
Shadow Storm
Shady Woods
Serious Business on Albatross Lane
The Strider and the Regulus
Trident
Unfortunate Floyd
Valiance
Vampyrian Gateway
Vasilisa
Wonder Rush
The Zealots
