Normal People
Irish novelist, born 1991. Won the Costa Novel Award in 2018 and the British Book Awards: Fiction Book of the Year in 2019.
Normal People is a 2018 novel by Sally Rooney. It won the Costa Novel Award in 2018 and the British Book Awards' Fiction Book of the Year in 2019.
On 4 of the 15 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Sally Rooney
- First published
- 2018
- Length
- 288 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- Costa Novel Award winner, 2018
- British Book Awards Fiction winner, 2019
- Genre
- Literary fiction, Love story, Class and society, Coming of age
Is Normal People worth reading?
4 of the 15 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them the British Book Awards' Fiction Book of the Year and the Costa Novel Award.
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| British Book Awards: Fiction Book of the Year (winners and shortlists) (The Bookseller, 2019) | Winner | See the list |
| Costa (Whitbread) Novel Award (winners and shortlists) (Costa, 2018) | Winner | See the list |
| The 100 best books of the 21st century (The Guardian, 2019) | No. 25 | See the list |
| Waterstones Book of the Year (winners and shortlists) (Waterstones, 2012-) | Winner | See the list |
Best edition of Normal People
The edition we link to is the Faber & Faber paperback (2019), 288 pages.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber (paperback, 2019)
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN
- 9780571334650
How critics, prizes and readers rate Normal People
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 40% of the points available on prize lists, against 22% on critics' lists and 17% 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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