In the third year that the Booker Prize has been open to U.S. authors, five American authors again make the longlist, including National Book Critics Circle Award-winner Paul Beatty. Double winner J.M. Coetzee is the lone former winner on the list, while Elizabeth Strout is the most celebrated American to be tapped. Other notable names include A.L. Kennedy and David Means, and four debut novels made the list.
All the Booker Prize longlisters are below (with bonus links where available):
- The Sellout by Paul Beatty (The Inanity of American Plutocracy: On Paul Beatty’s The Sellout)
- 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 (Ottessa Moshfegh’s Year in Reading)
- Work Like Any Other by Virginia Reeves
- My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout (Elizabeth Strout’s Year in Reading, A Millions Top Ten book)
- All That Man Is by David Szalay
- Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
