The Booker Prize has announced its 2022 Booker Prize longlist. The chair of the judges Neil MacGregor said, “the list offers story, fable and parable, fantasy, mystery, meditation and thriller’.

The Shortlist will be revealed on September 6th at the Serpentine Gallery in London. Thereafter, the winner will be announced at the Roundhouse on October 17th.

The thirteen books longlisted for this year’s prize are:

The Colony, Audrey Magee

After Sappho, Selby Wynn Schwartz

Glory, NoViolet Bulawayo

Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan

Nightcrawling, Leila Mottley

Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies, Maddie Mortimer

Case Study, Graeme Macrae Burnet

Treacle Walker, Alan Garner

The Trees, Percival Everett

Trust, Hernan Diaz

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Shehan Karunatilaka

Oh William!, Elizabeth Strout

Booth, Karen Joy Fowler

A hearty congratulations to all authors.