The longlist for the Booker Prize has been announced, including four American authors: Nathan Harris, Patricia Lockwood, Richard Powers, and Maggie Shipstead. The prize is worth £50,000 ($68,860). A shortlist of six will be announced on September 14, and the winner will be announced on November 2. Of the authors with shortlisted books, only Kazuo Ishiguro is a previous winner.
The longlist, with publishers from the U.S. (where available), are listed below.
- Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North (Hogarth)
- Rachel Cusk, Second Place (FSG)
- Damon Galgut, The Promise (Europa)
- Nathan Harris, The Sweetness of Water (Little, Brown)
- Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun (Knopf)
- Karen Jennings, An Island (Holland House Books)
- Mary Lawson, A Town Called Solace (Knopf Canada)
- Patricia Lockwood, No One is Talking About This (Riverhead)
- Nadifa Mohamed, The Fortune Men (Knopf)
- Richard Powers, Bewilderment (Norton)
- Sunjeev Sahota, China Room (Viking)
- Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle (Knopf)
- Francis Spufford, Light Perpetual (Scribner)
