2024 Booker Prize

2024

The judges’ selection was made from 156 books published between 1 October 2023 and 30 September 2024. The Booker Prize is open to works of long-form fiction by writers of any nationality, written in English and published in the UK and/or Ireland.

The winner will be announced on Tuesday, November 12 2024.

Judges

Edmund de Waal, Sara Collins, Justine Jordan, Yiyun Li, and Nitin Sawhney.

 

Shortlist

• Held by Anne Michaels
• Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
• Orbital by Samantha Harvey [review on my audiobook blog My Best Audiobooks]
• James by Percival Everett
• The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
• Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
  

Longlist

• Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange
  
• Wild Houses by Colin Barrett
  
• Held by Anne Michaels
  
• Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
  
• This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud
  
• Playground by Richard Powers
  
• Enlightenment by Sarah Perry
  
• Orbital by Samantha Harvey [review on my audiobook blog My Best Audiobooks]
  
• James by Percival Everett
  
• The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden
  
• My Friends by Hisham Matar
  
• Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood
  
• Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel