The selection committee has narrowed the finalists to a field of five:
The Poet X, by Elizabeth Acevedo
Exit West, by Mohsin Hamid
Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee
There There, by Tommy Orange
Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth, by Sarah Smarsh
Please share your thoughts about any or all of the titles above, keeping in mind our selection criteria: