The 13-title longlist for the £50,000 (about $64,140) 2024 Booker Prize has been released. The shortlist will be unveiled September 16 and a winner named November 12 during a ceremony in London. The shortlisted authors each receive £2,500 (about $3,205) and a specially bound edition of their book. This year's longlisted Booker titles are:
Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
Wild Horses by Colin Barrett
Held by Anne Michaels
Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
This Strange and 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 Bullwinkel
Chair of judges Edmund de Waal said: "After seven months and 156 novels it is a great moment to be able to hand over this glorious longlist of urgent, resonant books for the Booker Prize 2024: a cohort of global voices, strong voices and new voices. One of the true markers of the novels that we have chosen is that we feel they are necessary books, fiction that has made a space in our hearts and that we want to see find a place in the reading lives of many others. To reach the end of a novel and to be deeply moved and be unable to work out quite how that has happened is a great gift. This is timely and timeless fiction, in which there is much at stake."
As some industry people have noted, the list of 13 includes six by U.S. authors and only two by British authors, a major turnaround from the days, just a decade ago, when only authors from the U.K., Ireland, and Commonwealth were eligible for the prize.