Harvest
British novelist, born 1946. Won the Costa Novel Award in 1997.
Harvest is a 2013 novel by Jim Crace. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2013.
On 3 of the 17 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Jim Crace
- First published
- 2013
- Length
- 288 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- Booker Prize shortlist, 2013
- Walter Scott Prize shortlist, 2014
- Genre
- Literary fiction, Rural life, Class and society
Is Harvest worth reading?
3 of the 17 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them the Booker Prize and The 100 best books of the 21st century (The Guardian).
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Booker Prize (winners and shortlists) (Booker Prize Foundation, 2013) | Shortlist | See the list |
| The 100 best books of the 21st century (The Guardian, 2019) | No. 81 | See the list |
| Walter Scott Prize (winners and shortlists) (Abbotsford Trust, 2014) | Shortlist | See the list |
Best edition of Harvest
The edition we link to is the Picador paperback (2026), 288 pages.
- Publisher
- Picador (paperback, 2026)
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN
- 9781035090792
How critics, prizes and readers rate Harvest
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 33% of the points available on prize lists, against 14% 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
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