The 2024 Crossword Book Awards announces shortlists in six categories for its popular choice awards

The five-book shortlists in the six popular choice categories – Fiction, Nonfiction, Translation, Children’s, Business and Management, and Mind, Body and Spirit – for the 2024 Crossword Book Awards have been released. The longlists in the jury categories were announced earlier this month. The winners will be announced on December 12 in an in-person award ceremony in Mumbai. Each winner will receive a cash prize of Rs 50,000.

Readers can cast their votes on the Crossword website till November 25.

Here are the shortlisted books in each category:

Fiction

• Razor Sharp: A Kutta Kadam Thriller, Ashwin Sanghi, HarperCollins India

• Welcome to Paradise, Twinkle Khanna, Juggernaut

• World’s Best Girlfriend, Durjoy Datta, Penguin India

• Acts of God, Kanan Gill, HarperCollins India

• The Hidden Hindu: Book 3, Akshat Gupta, Penguin India

Nonfiction

• Kitne Ghazi Aye Kitne Ghazi Gaye: My Life Story, Lt Gen KJS ‘Tiny’ Dhillon, Penguin India

• Revolutionaries: The Other Story of How India Won Its Freedom, Sanjeev Sanyal, HarperCollins India

• RAW Hitman: The Real Story of Agent Lima, S Hussain Zaidi, Simon and Schuster India

• Why Bharat Matters, S Jaishankar, Rupa Publications

• Common Yet Uncommon: 14 Memorable Stories from Daily Life, Sudha Murty, Penguin India

Business and Management

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