The 2024 Booker Prize longlist
The longlist for the 2024 Booker Prize has been announced! It features three debut novels and six previously nominated writers, plus the newest book from Australian author, Charlotte Wood. The novels include 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.
- Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
- Wild Houses by Colin Barrett
- Held by Anne Michaels
- Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
- This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud
- Playground by Richard Powers
- Enlightenment by Sarah Perry
- Orbital by Samantha Harvey
- James by Percival Everett
- The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
- My Friends by Hisham Matar
- Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
- Headshot by Rita Bulwinkel
This year's ‘Booker Dozen’ was chosen by the 2024 judging panel, chaired by artist and author Edmund de Waal, and 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.
The judges selection was made from 156 books published between 1 October 2023 and 30 September 2024. The Booker Prize is open to works of long-form fiction by writers of any nationality, written in English and published in the UK and/or Ireland.
