All the Lives We Never Lived won the Tata Book of the Year Award on the 18th of November in Bombay, India. Speaking of the book, the judges said that its prose was "glittering" and that the book "did not put one foot wrong" in dealing with complex and varying themes.
Also on the shortlist were Janice Pariat's Nine-Chambered Heart and Tabish Khair's Night of Happiness.