Piranesi
British novelist, born 1959. Won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2021.
Piranesi is a 2020 novel by Susanna Clarke. It won the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2021.
In fantasy
On 3 of the 12 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Susanna Clarke
- First published
- 2020
- Length
- 272 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- Costa Novel Award shortlist, 2020
- Women's Prize for Fiction winner, 2021
- Genre
- Fantasy, Philosophical, Psychological
Is Piranesi worth reading?
3 of the 12 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Costa Novel Award.
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Costa (Whitbread) Novel Award (winners and shortlists) (Costa, 2020) | Shortlist | See the list |
| Readers' top 100 novels (The Guardian, 2026) | No. 70 | See the list |
| Women's Prize for Fiction (winners and shortlists) (Women's Prize Trust, 2021) | Winner | See the list |
Best edition of Piranesi
The edition we link to is the Bloomsbury Publishing paperback (2021), 272 pages.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing (paperback, 2021)
- Pages
- 272
- ISBN
- 9781526622433
How critics, prizes and readers rate Piranesi
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 42% of the points available on prize lists, against 17% on readers' and booksellers' lists and 0% on critics' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
Books like Piranesi
If you liked Piranesi, try Cloud Atlas, The Stand or The Alchemist.
