Each of the five Tata Literature Live award categories now has three book shortlists. The winners in five categories will be announced during the Tata Literature Live festival: fiction book of the year, nonfiction book of the year, business book of the year, first book: fiction, and first book: nonfiction.

The shortlisted books in each category:

Fiction book of the year

• Everything the Light Touches, Janice Pariat
• The Education Of Yuri, Jerry Pinto
• The Secret Of More, Tejaswini Apte-Rahm

Nonfiction book of the year

• Raw Umber, Sara Rai
• The Song Of The Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human, Siddhartha Mukherjee
• Writer, Rebel, Soldier, Lover: The Many Lives of Agyeya, Akshaya Mukul

First book: Fiction

• Shurjo’s Clan, Iffat Nawaz
• The Bandit Queens, Parini Shroff
• The Woman Who Climbed Trees, Smriti Ravindra

First book: Nonfiction

• Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire, Nandini Das
• Marginlands: Indian Landscapes on the Brink, Arati Kumar-Rao
• Vajpayee: The ascent of the Hindu Right, 1924-1977, Abhishek Choudhary

Business book of the year

• Against All Odds: The IT Story of India, S Gopalakrishnan, N Dayasindhu, Krishnan Narayan
• The Tech Phoenix: Satyam’s 100-day Turnaround, TN Manoharan, V Pattabhi Ram
• Working To Restore: Why We Do Business in the Regenerative Era, Esha Chhabra