2020 Booker Prize Longlist
This year’s Booker Prize for Fiction longlist of 13 books was announced earlier this week! The Booker Prize for Fiction is open to writers of any nationality, writing in English and published in the UK or Ireland.
The 2020 contenders are:
Diane Cook - The New Wilderness
Tsitsi Dangarembga - This Mournable Body
Avni Doshi - Burnt Sugar
Gabriel Krauze - Who They Was
Hilary Mantel - The Mirror & The Light
Colum McCann - Apeirogon
Maaza Mengiste - The Shadow King
Kiley Reid - Such a Fun Age
Brandon Taylor - Real Life
Anne Tyler - Redhead by The Side of The Road
Douglas Stuart - Shuggie Bain
Sophie Ward - Love and Other Thought Experiments
C Pam Zhang - How Much of These Hills is Gold
The shortlist of six books will be announced on Tuesday 15 September. The 2020 winner will be announced in November.
You can find more information about each book in the list below. Unfortunately, Burnt Sugar by Anvi Doshi, Love and Other Thought Experiments by Sophie Ward, and Who They Was by Gabriel Krauze are not yet distributed in the United States
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