The Man Booker Prize, which “aims to promote the finest in fiction by rewarding the best novel of the year written in English and published in the United Kingdom,” announced its 2019 longlist.
Whittled down from 151 novels published in the U.K. or Ireland between Oct. 1, 2018 and Sept. 30, 2019, the 13-title longlist includes two previous winners (Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood), one American author (Lucy Ellmann), and one debut novelist (Oyinkan Braithwaite). We are also extremely excited that our own contributing editor Chigozie Obioma made the list!
Here’s the 2019 “Booker Dozen,” featuring 13 novels—plus applicable bonus links:
- The Testaments by Margaret Atwood (Read our 2015 interview with Atwood)
- Night Boat to Tangier by Kevin Barry (Read Barry’s 2017 Year in Reading entry)
- My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (Featured in our November Most Anticipated List)
- Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann
- Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
- The Wall by John Lanchester
- The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy (Featured in our Great Second-Half Book Preview)
- Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli (Read reviews of Luiselli’s other works here and here)
- An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma (Our interview with Obioma)
- Lanny by Max Porter (Read our review of Lanny)
- Quichotte by Salman Rushdie
- 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak
- Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson
The Man Booker Prize shortlist will be announced on Sept. 3rd.
