Marlon James and Douglas Stuart can become the fifth author to win the Booker Prize twice after both were shortlisted for arguably the U.K.’s most prestigious fiction accolade.

The publishing world's notable releases this year included a new “Hunger Games” novel and a book by Thomas Pynchon.

Writer David Szalay has won the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction with his novel “Flesh,” the story of an ordinary man’s life over several decades.

Booker Prize-winning Indian author Kiran Desai is a favorite to win the prestigious fiction award again.

Novels by Angela Flournoy, Kiran Desai and Megha Majumdar, along with a memoir by Arundhati Roy, are finalists for the Kirkus Prize.

Indian author Kiran Desai is up for the award again with her new novel “The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny.”.