The 2022 Booker Prize Longlist Has Been Revealed

It’s that exciting time of year again when the Booker Prize announces the longlist of books in the running to win the prestigious literary award.

The 13 books on this year’s longlist – the ‘Booker dozen’ – 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 1 October 2021 and 30 September 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.

This year’s longlist features the youngest and oldest author ever to be longlisted: 20-year-old Leila Mottley and octogenarian Alan Garner, who will celebrate his 88th birthday on the night of the winner ceremony. Chair of judges Neil MacGregor says of the list: “The list offers story, fable and parable, fantasy, mystery, meditation and thriller”.

The 2022 Booker longlist in full:

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

Trust, Hernan Diaz (American), (Picador, Pan Macmillan)

The Trees, Percival Everett (American), (Influx Press)

Booth, Karen Joy Fowler (American), (Serpent’s Tail, Profile Books)

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

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, Shehan Karunatilaka (Sri Lankan), (Sort of Books)

Small Things Like These, Claire Keegan (Irish), (Faber)

Case Study, Graeme Macrae Burnet (British), (Saraband)

The Colony, Audrey Magee (Irish), (Faber)

Maps of our Spectacular Bodies, Maddie Mortimer (British), (Picador, Pan Macmillan)

Nightcrawling, Leila Mottley (American), (Bloomsbury Circus, Bloomsbury Publishing)

After Sappho, Selby Wynn Schwartz (American), (Galley Beggar Press)

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