2024 Shortlist
The 2024 Shortlist for the Booker Prize – the world’s most influential prize for a single work of fiction – has been announced!
The six books were selected by the 2024 judging panel from 156 works published between 1 October 2023 and 30 September 2024, and submitted to the prize by publishers. The panel is chaired by artist and author Edmund de Waal, who is joined by award-winning novelist Sara Collins; Fiction Editor of the Guardian, Justine Jordan; world-renowned writer and professor Yiyun Li; and musician, composer and producer Nitin Sawhney.
Rachel Kushner Creation Lake
A woman is caught in the crossfire between the past and the future in this part-spy novel, part-profound treatise on human history
Anne Michaels Held
In a narrative that spans four generations, moments of connection and consequence ignite and re-ignite as the century unfolds.
Percival Everett James
A profound meditation on identity, belonging and the sacrifices we make to protect the ones we love, which reimagines The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Samantha Harvey Orbital
Six astronauts rotate in the International Space Station. They are there to do vital work, but slowly they begin to wonder: what is life without Earth? What is Earth without humanity?
Charlotte Wood Stone Yard Devotional
The past comes knocking in Charlotte Wood’s fearless exploration of forgiveness, grief and female friendship.
Yael van der Wouden The Safekeep
2023 Winner LYNCH, Paul Prophet Song
2022 Winner KARUNATILAKA, Shehan
