The longlist for the Booker Prize 2022 has been announced! The books are:
- Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo
- Trust by Hernan Diaz
- The Trees by Percival Everett
- Booth by Karen Joy Fowler
- Treacle Walker by Alan Garner
- The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shahan Karunatilaka
- Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
- Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet
- The Colony by Audrey Magee
- Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer
- Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
- After Sappho by Selby Lynn Schwartz
- Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
Chair of the judges, Neil MacGregor, said: "The list offers story, fable and parable, fantasy, mystery, meditation and thriller".
This year includes the youngest and oldest authors ever to be nominated 20-year-old Leila Mottley (Nightcrawling) and 87-year old Alan Garner (Treacle Walker). The list also includes the shortest book to be longlisted - Claire Keegan’s Small Things Like These - which is 116 pages.
Three debut novelists make the list: Maddie Mortimer, Leila Mottley and Selby Wynn Schwartz, but previously shortlisted authors NoViolet Bulawayo, Karen Joy Fowler and Graeme Macrae Burnet, and previously longlisted Elizabeth Strout are recognised.
The majority of the longlist is published by independent publishers, including first time appearances from Influx Press and Sort of Books.
So, who will be making the shortlist decision? Cultural historian and writer MacGregor is joined on the judging panel by academic and broadcaster Shahidha Bari; historian Helen Castor; author and critic M John Harrison; and novelist and poet Alain Mabanckou. The judges read a total of 169 submissions.
The shortlist will be unveiled on September 6 at the Serpentine Gallery in London, and the winner will be announced at the Roundhouse on October 17.
