The longlist, or ‘Man Booker Dozen’, for the £50,000 Man Booker Prize has been announced. Longlisted authors include two-time Booker Prize winner J.M. Coetzee, as well three debut novelists: David Means, Wyl Menmuir and Virginia Reeves.
Chair of the 2016 judges, Amanda Foreman, writes: ‘This is a very exciting year. The range of books is broad and the quality extremely high. Each novel provoked intense discussion and, at times, passionate debate, challenging our expectations of what a novel is and can be… From the historical to the contemporary, the satirical to the polemical, the novels in this list come from both established writers and new voices. The writing is uniformly fresh, energetic and important. It is a longlist to be relished.’
Here is the full list of 13 titles:
- The Sellout by Paul Beatty
- The Schooldays of Jesus by J.M. Coetzee
- Serious Sweet by A.L. Kennedy
- Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
- His Bloody Project by Graeme Macrae Burnet
- The North Water by Ian McGuire
- Hystopia by David Means
- The Many by Wyl Menmuir
- Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh
- Work Like Any Other by Virginia Reeves
- My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout
- All That Man Is by David Szalay
- Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien