Shuggie Bain
British and American novelist, born 1976. Won the Booker Prize in 2020.
Shuggie Bain is a 2020 novel by Douglas Stuart. It won the Booker Prize in 2020.
In coming of age, LGBTQ+
On 3 of the 13 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Douglas Stuart
- First published
- 2020
- Length
- 480 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- Booker Prize winner, 2020
- National Book Award for Fiction shortlist, 2020
- Genre
- Literary fiction, LGBTQ+, Coming of age, Class and society
Is Shuggie Bain worth reading?
3 of the 13 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them the Booker Prize and the National Book Award for Fiction.
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Booker Prize (winners and shortlists) (Booker Prize Foundation, 2020) | Winner | See the list |
| National Book Award for Fiction (winners and finalists) (National Book Foundation, 2020) | Shortlist | See the list |
| The Big Jubilee Read (BBC Arts and The Reading Agency, 2022) | Listed | See the list |
Best edition of Shuggie Bain
The edition we link to is the Picador paperback (2021), 480 pages.
- Publisher
- Picador (paperback, 2021)
- Pages
- 480
- ISBN
- 9781529019292
How critics, prizes and readers rate Shuggie Bain
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 33% 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 Shuggie Bain
If you liked Shuggie Bain, try John of John, My Brilliant Friend or The Line of Beauty.
