The 2023 Booker Prize longlist
The longlist for the 2023 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:
- A Spell of Good Things by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
- Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry
- Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein
- If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery
- How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney
- This Other Eden by Paul Harding
- Pearl by Siân Hughes
- All the Little Bird-Hearts by Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow
- Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
- In Ascension by Martin MacInnes
- Western Lane by Chetna Maroo
- The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
- The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng
Esi Edugyan, chair of the Booker Prize 2023 judges said of the longlist, ‘The list is defined by its freshness – by the irreverence of new voices, by the iconoclasm of established ones. All 13 novels cast new light on what it means to exist in our time, and they do so in original and thrilling ways. Their range is vast, both in subject and form: they shocked us, made us laugh, filled us with anguish, but above all they stayed with us. This is a list to excite, challenge, delight, a list to bring wonder.’
