In the second year that the Booker Prize has been open to U.S. authors, five American authors make the longlist. Anne Enright is the lone former winner on the list, while Marilynne Robinson is the most celebrated American to be tapped. Other notable names include Hanya Yanagihara, Tom McCarthy, and Bill Clegg, who has been better known as a high-powered literary agent and memoirist. Laila Lalami, who now calls the U.S. her home, is the first Moroccan-born writer to land on a Booker longlist. Seven countries are represented overall.
All the Booker Prize longlisters are below (with bonus links where available):
- Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg
- The Green Road by Anne Enright (What It Is to Be Alone: The Millions Interviews Anne Enright)
- A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James (The Book Report on A Brief History)
- The Moor’s Account by Laila Lalami (“How History Becomes Story – Three Novels” by Laila Lalami, Ship of Fools: On Laila Lalami’s The Moor’s Account)
- Satin Island by Tom McCarthy (A Millions Top 10 book)
- The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma (“The Audacity of Prose” by Chigozie Obioma, Clickworthy Headlines about The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma)
- The Illuminations by Andrew O’Hagan
- Lila by Marilynne Robinson (Marilynne Robinson’s Singular Vision)
- Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Roy
- The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota
- The Chimes by Anna Smaill
- A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler
- A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (Two Lives: On Hanya Yanagihara and Atticus Lish)
