The Green Road
Irish novelist, born 1962. Won the Booker Prize in 2007.
The Green Road is a 2015 novel by Anne Enright. It was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award in 2015.
In family saga, LGBTQ+
On 3 of the 15 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Anne Enright
- First published
- 2015
- Length
- 320 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- Costa Novel Award shortlist, 2015
- Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist, 2016
- Genre
- Literary fiction, Family saga, LGBTQ+, Migration and identity
Is The Green Road worth reading?
3 of the 15 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them The 100 best books of the 21st century (The Guardian) and the Costa Novel Award.
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Costa (Whitbread) Novel Award (winners and shortlists) (Costa, 2015) | Shortlist | See the list |
| The 100 best books of the 21st century (The Guardian, 2019) | No. 37 | See the list |
| Women's Prize for Fiction (winners and shortlists) (Women's Prize Trust, 2016) | Shortlist | See the list |
Best edition of The Green Road
The edition we link to is the Vintage paperback (2016), 320 pages.
- Publisher
- Vintage (paperback, 2016)
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN
- 9780099539797
How critics, prizes and readers rate The Green Road
Prize juries and critics rate it about equally: it earned 27% on prize lists and 22% on critics' lists, against 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
Books like The Green Road
If you liked The Green Road, try Wolf Hall, Midnight's Children or Beloved.
