The long list of 41 books was announced in April 2021.
The short list of 13 books was announced in June 2021:
Narine Abgarian. Simon
Dmitrii Bavil'skii. Zhelanie byt' gorodom
Iurii Buida. Sady Viverny
Oksana Vasiakina. Rana
Evgenii Vodolazkin. Opravdanie Ostrova
Mikhail Gigolashvili. Koka
Andrei Dmitriev. Etot bereg
Maiia Kucherskaia. Leskov. Prozevannyi genii
Vladimir Papernyi. Arkhiv Shul'tsa
Aleksei Poliarinov. Rif
Viktor Remizov. Vechnaia merzlota
Marina Stepnova. Sad
Leonid Iuzefovich.Filellin
