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Booker Prize 2024 Longlist

The 2024 longlist for the Booker Prize – the world’s most influential prize for a single work of fiction – is announced today, Tuesday, July 30, 2024.

The longlist of 13 books – the ‘Booker Dozen’ – has been chosen by the 2024 judging panel. The panel is chaired by artist and author Edmund de Waal, who is joined by award-winning novelist Sara Collins; Fiction Editor of the Guardian, Justine Jordan; world-renowned writer and professor Yiyun Li; and musician, composer and producer Nitin Sawhney.

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.

Creation Lake

Creation Lake
ByRachel Kushner

4 • 98 Readers • 311 pages 3.7

Enlightenment

Enlightenment
BySarah Perry

2024 • 37 Readers • 384 pages 3

Headshot

Headshot
ByRita Bullwinkel

2024 • 51 Readers • 225 pages 3.6

Held

Held
ByAnne Michaels

2023 • 27 Readers • 241 pages 3.3

James

James
ByPercival Everett

2024 • 391 Readers • 320 pages 4.5

My Friends

My Friends
ByHisham Matar

2024 • 43 Readers • 394 pages 4.2

Orbital

Orbital
BySamantha Harvey

2023 • 228 Readers • 207 pages 3.8

Playground

Playground
ByRichard Powers

2024 • 78 Readers • 381 pages 4.1

Stone Yard Devotional

Stone Yard Devotional
ByCharlotte Wood

2023 • 20 Readers • 249 pages 3.3

The Safekeep

The Safekeep
ByYael van der Wouden

2024 • 58 Readers • 262 pages 4.3

This Strange Eventful History

2024 • 25 Readers • 465 pages 3.8

Wandering Stars

Wandering Stars
ByTommy Orange

2024 • 128 Readers • 315 pages 3.7

Wild Houses

Wild Houses
ByColin Barrett

2024 • 22 Readers • 288 pages 3.7