The Booker Prize 2024 Has Chosen Its Longlist

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The world's most influential prize for fiction, even called "the Olympic gold medal of book awards" (by Sara Collins, the award-winning novelist) - the Booker Prize 2024 has already selected its "Booker Dozen": the longlist consisting of thirteen books.

The judging panel chaired by artist and author Edmund de Waal have read all 156 books submitted for the prize and announced the longlist, which includes three debut novels and six authors already nominated for the prize. It features blackly comic page-turners, multigenerational epics, meditations on the pain of exile - plus a crime caper, a spy thriller, an unflinching account of girls’ boxing and a reimagining of a 19th-century classic:

• Wild Houses by Colin Barrett  

• Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel

• James by Percival Everett 

• Orbital by Samantha Harvey  

• Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner  

• My Friends by Hisham Matar

• This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud

• Held by Anne Michaels

• Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange

• Enlightenment by Sarah Perry 

• Playground by Richard Powers 

• The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden 

• Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood

"One of the true markers of the novels that we have chosen is that we feel they are necessary books, fiction that has made a space in our hearts and that we want to see find a place in the reading lives of many others. To reach the end of a novel and to be deeply moved and be unable to work out quite how that has happened is a great gift," Edmund de Waal, Chair of the Booker Prize 2024 judges, explained their choice for the longlist.

The Booker Prize, first awarded in 1969, is the leading literary award in the English-speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades. The shortlist 2024 will be announced very soon - on September 16.

Source: thebookerprizes.com