De shortlist voor de International Dublin Literary Award is bekendgemaakt. De lijst is als volgt:

1. The Silence of the Girls – Pat Barker, Hamish Hamilton Ltd.
2. Milkman – Anna Burns, Faber & Faber and Graywolf Press.
3. Disoriental – Négar Djavadi, vertaald door Tina Kover, Europa Editions.
4. Washington Black – Esi Edugyan, Serpents Tail Ltd., HarperCollins Canada and Alfred A. Knopf.
5. An American Marriage – Tayari Jones, Algonquin Books.
6. History of Violence – Édouard Louis, vertaald door Lorin Stein, Harvill Secker.
7. The Friend – Sigrid Nunez, Virago Press Ltd.
8. There There – Tommy Orange, Harvill Secker, Alfred A. Knopf and McClelland & Stewart Inc.
9. All the Lives We Never Lived – Anuradha Roy, MacLehose Press and Atria Books.
10. Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead – Olga Tokarczuk, vertaald door Antonia Lloyd-Jones,Fitzcarraldo Editions.

22 oktober volgt de bekendmaking van de winnaar.