All Fours
American novelist, born 1974.
All Fours is a 2024 novel by Miranda July. It was shortlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction in 2024.
On 3 of the 12 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Miranda July
- First published
- 2024
- Length
- 400 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- National Book Award for Fiction shortlist, 2024
- Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist, 2025
- British Book Awards Fiction shortlist, 2025
- Genre
- Literary fiction, Feminist, Psychological
Is All Fours worth reading?
3 of the 12 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them the British Book Awards' Fiction Book of the Year and the National Book Award for Fiction.
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| British Book Awards: Fiction Book of the Year (winners and shortlists) (The Bookseller, 2025) | Shortlist | See the list |
| National Book Award for Fiction (winners and finalists) (National Book Foundation, 2024) | Shortlist | See the list |
| Women's Prize for Fiction (winners and shortlists) (Women's Prize Trust, 2025) | Shortlist | See the list |
Best edition of All Fours
The edition we link to is the Canongate Books paperback (2025), 400 pages.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books (paperback, 2025)
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN
- 9781838853488
How critics, prizes and readers rate All Fours
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 40% of the points available on prize lists, against 0% on critics' lists and 0% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work