The Tata Literature Live! Book of the Year Award has been constituted to recognise noteworthy work in the Indian literary space across the fiction and non-fiction genres.
In the Fiction category, the longlisted nominees are (in alphabetical order):
| Sr. No. | Book | Author | Publishing House |
| 1. | All Quiet in Vikaspuri | Sarnath Banerjee | HarperCollins |
| 2. | Jihadi Jane | Tabish Khair | Penguin Random House |
| 3. | Jinnah Often Came to our House | Kiran Doshi | Westland |
| 4. | Selection Day | Aravind Adiga | HarperCollins |
| 5. | The Association of Small Bombs | Karan Mahajan | HarperCollins |
| 6. | The Private Life of Mrs Sharma | Ratika Kapur | Bloomsbury Publishing |