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 8 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

• Let’s Talk Mutual Funds: A Systematic, Smart Way to Make Them Work for You, Monika Halan, HarperCollins India

• Chanakya’s 100 Best Sutras: Ageless Wisdom for Unlocking Your Potential and Achieving Your Goals, Radhakrishnan Pillai, Jaico Publishing

• Make Epic Money, Ankur Warikoo, Penguin India

• Money Works: The Guide to Financial Literacy, Abhijeet Kolapkar, Penguin India

• Breaking the Mould: Reimagining India’s Economic Future, Raghuram G Rajan and Rohit Lamba, Penguin India

Children’s books

• Bipathu and a Very Big Dream, Anita Nair, Puffin Books

• All-time Favourite Nature Stories, Ruskin Bond, illustrated by David Yambem, Puffin Books

• Mahi: The Elephant Who Flew Over the Blue Mountains, Anand Neelakantan, illustrated by Doodlenerve, HarperCollins India

• How the Bamboo Got Its Bounty, Sudha Murty, Puffin Books

• The Yoga Sutras for Children, Roopa Pai, Hachette India

Translations

• Fire Bird, Perumal Murugan, translated from the Tamil by Janani Kannan, Penguin India

• The Greatest Malayalam Stories Ever Told, selected and translated by AJ Thomas, Aleph Book Company

• Conversations with Aurangzeb: A Novel, Charu Nivedita, translated from the Tamil by Nandini Krishnan, HarperCollins India

• The Greatest Indian Stories Ever Told, edited by Arunava Sinha, Aleph Book Company

• Sakina’s Kiss, Vivek Shanbhag, translated from the Kannada by Srinath Perur, Penguin India

Mind, body and space

• Hacking Health: The Only Book You’ll Ever Need to Live Your Healthiest Life, Mukesh Bansal, Penguin India

• The Power of One Thought: Master Your Mind, Master Your Life, BK Shivani, HarperCollins India

• Small Wins Every Day: 100 Powerful Ways to Transform Your Life and Health, Luke Coutinho, Penguin India

• Energize Your Mind: Learn the Art of Mastering Your Thoughts, Feelings and Emotions, Gaur Gopal Das, Penguin India

• 11 Rules For Life: Secrets to Level Up, Chetan Bhagat, HarperCollins India

Disclosure: Arunava Sinha is the editor of Books and Ideas section of Scroll.