Find Your Next Read on the 2024 Booker Prize Longlist

by Rachel Kushner

A woman is caught in the crossfire between the past and the future in this part-spy novel, part-profound treatise on human history.

To be published in the U.S. on September 3, 2024

by Sarah Perry

Two unlikely best friends in Aldleigh, England investigate the mystery of a vanished 19th century explorer uncovering a devastating tale of love and scientific pursuit.

by Anne Michaels

A war-wounded soldier in 1920 returns home to Yorkshire and has his past push into the present when ghosts with indecipherable messages begin to show up in his photographs.

by Rita Bullwinkel

Eight teenage girl boxers from different backgrounds travel to Reno, Nevada, to compete against each other in a tournament to be named the best in the country, in a series of raw, intense face-offs.

by Percival Everett

Describes the events of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn through the eyes of the enslaved Jim, who decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island after learning he is to be sold to a man in New Orleans.

by Hisham Matar

Attending the University of Edinburgh, Benghazi transplant Khaled forms a powerful friendship with the author whose short story changed his life, forcing him, as the Arab Spring erupts, to confront agonizing tensions between revolution and safety, family and exile and how to define his own sense of self against those closest to him.

by Samantha Harvey

In an elegy to our humanity, environment and planet, six astronauts, selected for one of the last space station missions, leave their lives behind to travel at a speed of over 17,000 miles an hour to orbit Earth, witnessing the marks of civilization below.

by Richard Powers

Playground explores that last wild place we have yet to colonize and interweaves profound themes of technology and the environment, and a deep exploration of our shared humanity.

Not yet published in the U.S.

by Yael van der Wouden

In 1961, in Dutch countryside, Isabel lives by routine and discipline until her brother leaves his graceless new girlfriend Eva on her doorstep, and as Eva disrespects her house, Isabel develops a fury-fueled obsession that gives way to infatuation, leading to a discovery that unravels all Isabel has ever known.

by Charlotte Wood

Burnt out and in need of retreat, a middle-aged woman leaves Sydney to return to the place she grew up, taking refuge in a small religious community hidden away on the stark plains of the Australian outback. But disquiet interrupts this secluded life with three visitations. First comes a terrible mouse plague, each day signalling a new battle against the rising infestation. Second is the return of the skeletal remains of a sister who disappeared decades before, presumed murdered. And finally, a troubling visitor plunges the narrator further back into her past.

Not yet published in the U.S.

by Claire Messud

Inspired in part by long-ago stories from her own family's history, this masterful story follows the Cassars over seven decades, starting with patriarch Gaston and his wife Lucienne, whose myth of perfect love sustains them, and ending with Chloe, who believes telling her family's buried stories will bring them all peace.

by Tommy Orange

Tracing the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre in 1864 to the aftermath of Orvil Red Feather's shooting, Opal tries to hold her family together while Orvil becomes emotionally reliant on prescription medications, and his younger brother, suffering from PTSD, secretly enacts blood rituals to connect to his Cheyenne heritage.

by Colin Barrett

In Ballina, Ireland, introspective loner Dev, when Doll English, the younger brother of a small-time local dealer shows up on his doorstep in the clutches of Dev’s enforcer cousins, finds his quiet homelife upturned as he is quickly and unwittingly drawn into a revenge plot and a kidnapping goes awry.