The longlist for the 2022 Booker Prize has been announced! The Booker Prize has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over 50 years. It is awarded annually to the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK or Ireland.

Below are the 13 longlisted titles:

• The Colony by Audrey Magee

• After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz

• Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo

• Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

• Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley

• Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer

• Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet

• Treacle Walker by Alan Garner

• The Trees by Percival Everett

• Trust by Hernan Diaz

• The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka

• Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout

• Booth by Karen Joy Fowler

Neil MacGregor, chair of the Booker Prize 2022 judges said: ‘The task of whittling 169 down to 13 has been as enjoyable as it has been arduous. We, the five judges, bring such different approaches and experiences to our reading, that left to ourselves, we would probably have produced five very different lists. But we read these books as a group, disagreeing and discussing, comparing, reconsidering and re-reading, and together we reached a striking degree of consensus. These are thirteen books — challenging, stimulating, surprising, nourishing — that we recommend for close and enjoyable reading.’

The shortlist of six books will be announced on September 6. You can find out more about the Booker Prize longlist here.