The Tata Literature Live! Book of the Year Award has been constituted to recognise noteworthy work in the Indian literary space across the fiction and non-fiction genres.
In the Fiction category, the longlisted nominees are (in alphabetical order):
- Harilal and Sons by Sujit Saraf (Speaking Tiger)
- Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy (Penguin Random House)
- Scattered Souls by Shahnaz Bashir (HarperCollins)
- Son of a Thundercloud by Easterine Kire (Speaking Tiger)
- The Small Town Sea by Anees Salim (Penguin Random House)
- When I Hit You by Meena Kandasamy (Juggernaut)
In the Non–Fiction category, the longlisted nominees are (in alphabetical order):
- Age of Anger: A History of the Present by Pankaj Mishra (Juggernaut)
- An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India by Shashi Tharoor (Aleph)
- Hegel’s India: A Reinterpretation, with Texts by AS Rathore and R Mohapatra (Oxford University Press)
- Reporting Pakistan by Meena Menon (Penguin Random House)
- Two Saints: Speculations Around and About Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and Ramana Maharishi by Arun Shourie (HarperCollins)
- When Crime Pays: Money and Muscle in Indian Politics by Milan Vaishnav (HarperCollins)