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The House of Doors

by Tan Twan Eng

Publication: First published 2023
ISBN: 9781639734672, 9781838858339, 9781838858315

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Prize history

Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
2024

Shortlist
Booker Prize
2023

Longlist

Year-end lists

The New Yorker, best books of 2023 No. 65

Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction 2024 shortlist

Hungry Ghosts

Kevin Jared Hosein

Winner
Absolutely and Forever

Rose Tremain
In the Upper Country

Kai Thomas
My Father’s House

Joseph O’Connor
The New Life

Tom Crewe

Booker Prize 2023 longlist

Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

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If I Survive You

Jonathan Escoffery
Study for Obedience

Sarah Bernstein
The Bee Sting

Paul Murray
This Other Eden

Paul Harding
Western Lane

Chetna Maroo

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