2024 Booker Prize
August 13, 2024
This year's Longlist is out from the folks at the Booker Prize! The six finalists will be announced on September 16, 2024, with the winner announced on November 12, 2024.
We own several of the titles. Ones we don't have can be requested from another library.
Longlist - 13 entries
Tommy Orange
A novel about epigenetic and generational trauma that has the force and vision of a modern epic, an exceptionally powerful new book from one of the most exciting writers at work today and soaring confirmation of Tommy Orange's monumental gifts. - Jacket Flap
Colin Barrett
Set against Barrett’s trademark depictions of small town Irish life, Wild Houses is thrillingly-told story of two outsiders striving to find themselves as their worlds collapse in chaos and violence. - Amazon
Anne Michaels
A narrative that spans four generations of connections and consequences that ignite and reignite as the century unfolds. In radiant moments of desire, comprehension, longing, and transcendence, the sparks fly upward, working their transformations decades later. - Amazon
Rachel Kushner
A new novel about a seductive and cunning American woman who infiltrates an anarchist collective in France—a propulsive page-turner of glittering insights and dark humor. - Amazon
Claire Messud
Inspired in part by long-ago stories from her own family’s history, Claire Messud animates her characters’ rich interior lives amid the social and political upheaval of the recent past. - Amazon
Richard Powers
Set in the world’s largest ocean, this awe-filled book explores that last wild place we have yet to colonize in a still-unfolding oceanic game, and interweaves beautiful writing, rich characterization, profound themes of technology and the environment, and a deep exploration of our shared humanity. - Amazon
Sarah Perry
A dazzling novel of love and astronomy told over the course of twenty years through the lives of two improbable best friends. - Amazon
Samantha Harvey
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men traveling through space. - Amazon
Percival Everett
While many narrative set pieces of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn remain in place, Jim’s agency, intelligence and compassion are shown in a radically new light. - Amazon
Yael van der Wouden
An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the same house in the Dutch countryside during the summer of 1961. - Amazon
Hisham Matar
When a chance encounter in a hotel brings Khaled face-to-face with Hosam Zowa, the author of the fateful short story, he is subsumed into the deepest friendship of his life. - Amazon
Charlotte Wood
Burnt out and in need of retreat, a middle-aged woman leaves Sydney to return to the place she grew up, finding solace in a small religious community hidden away on the stark plains of the Australian outback. But disquiet interrupts this secluded life with three visitations. - Jacket Flap
Rita Bullwinkel
Each of the eight teenage girl boxers in this blistering debut novel has her own reasons for the sacrifices she has made to come to Reno, Nevada, to compete to be named the best in the country. - Amazon
