2022 Booker Prize Shortlist Has Been Announced!

The 2022 Booker Prize shortlist has been announced, and it’s a stellar list featuring authors from five different nationalities and four different continents as well as the oldest author ever to be shortlisted (Alan Garner).

The six Booker shortlisted books for 2022 are:

Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo (Chatto & Windus, Vintage, Penguin Random House)

The Trees written by Percival Everett (Influx Press)

Treacle Walker by Alan Garner (4th Estate, HarperCollins)

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka (Sort of Books)

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (Faber)

Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout (Viking, Penguin General, Penguin Random House)

This year’s shortlist were chosen by the 2022 judging panel: cultural historian, writer and broadcaster Neil MacGregor (Chair); academic and broadcaster Shahidha Bari; historian Helen Castor; novelist and critic M John Harrison; and novelist, poet and professor Alain Mabanckou.

Their selection was made from 169 novels published between October 1, 2021 and September 30, 2022 and submitted to the prize by publishers. The Booker Prize is open to works by writers of any nationality, written in English and published in the UK or Ireland.

The 2022 winner will be announced on Monday, October 17th in an award ceremony held at the Roundhouse, London, and fully in person for the first time since 2019. Find out more here.