Baker's Dozen Make Booker Longlist

The longlist for the 2020 Booker Prize was released. The prize, which is valued at £50,000, is open to English-language novels from authors of any nationality published in the U.K. or Ireland. This year's list was chosen from 162 novels published between October 1, 2019 and September 30, 2020. Eight of the novels chosen are debuts; nine of authors are men and four are women. Overall, nine of the authors are from or are living in the United States.

The list follows:

• The New Wilderness by Diane Cook (Oneworld Publications)
• This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga (Faber & Faber)
• Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi (Hamish Hamilton, Penguin Random House)
• Who They Was by Gabriel Krauze (4th Estate, HarperCollins)
• The Mirror & The Light by Hilary Mantel (4th Estate, HarperCollins)
• Apeirogon by Colum McCann (Bloomsbury Publishing) 
• The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste (Canongate Books)
• Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid (Bloomsbury Circus, Bloomsbury Publishing)
• Real Life by Brandon Taylor (Originals, Daunt Books Publishing)       
• Redhead by The Side of The Road by Anne Tyler (Chatto & Windus, Vintage)
• Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart (Picador, Pan Macmillan)
• Love and Other Thought Experiments by Sophie Ward (Corsair, Little, Brown)
• How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang (Virago, Little, Brown)