Booker Prize Longlist 2024

eAudio and eBook versions, along with past winners and nominees, can be found at: Kirklees Overdrive - Booker Prizes collection

Updated August 14, 2024
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Wild houses
Barrett, Colin
Paper Book
As Ballina prepares for its biggest weekend of the year, the simmering feud between small-time dealer, Cillian English, and County Mayo's fraternal enforcers, Gabe and Sketch Ferdia, spills over into violence and an ugly ultimatum. When the reclusive Dev answers his door on Friday night...
James
Everett, Percival
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024!Selected as one of the top 12 reads of 2024 by The Times and Sunday Times'Percival Everett is a giant of American letters, and James is a canon-shatteringly great book' - Hernan Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Trust'Who should read this book? Every single...
Orbital: 'Awe-Inspiring' Max Porter
Harvey, Samantha
Paper Book
**WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024** **THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** 'A slim, profound study of intimate human fears set against epic vistas' GUARDIAN 'Stunning... An uplifting book' SUNDAY TIMES Life on our...
Creation Lake
Kushner, Rachel
Paper Book
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024** **INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** 'Imagine Slow Horses' Jackson Lamb in the body of Jodie Comer's character in Killing Eve' SUNDAY TIMES 'Compulsively readable... Kill Bill<...
My friends
Matar, Hisham
Paper Book
Khaled and Mustafa meet at university in Edinburgh- two Libyan eighteen-year-olds expecting to return home after their studies. In a moment of recklessness and courage, they travel to London to join a demonstration in front of the Libyan embassy. When government officials open fire on protestors in...
This strange eventful history : a novel
Messud, Claire
Paper Book
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024 '[A] wise and insightful novel about identity and family' The Times, Book of the Day 'An epic family odyssey... Ambitious and compelling' Guardian, Book of the Day 'A rich,...
Held
Michaels, Anne
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE GILLER PRIZE 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024 **The international bestseller** **A Guardian Book of the Year** **Chosen as a book of the year by the independent.co.uk** 'Her prose is a...
Wandering Stars: A Novel
Orange, Tommy
Paper Book
Following its unforgettable characters through almost two centuries of history, from the horrors of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1865 to the aftermath of a mass shooting in the early 21st century, Wandering Stars is an indelible novel of America's war on its own people. It is also...
Enlightenment
Perry, Sarah
Paper Book
**LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024** A story of love and astronomy told over the course of twenty years through the lives of two improbable best friends 'Gorgeous... Ethereal' GUARDIAN 'A book with cosmic reach' FINANCIAL TIMES 'A...
The Safekeep
van der Wouden, Yael.
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2025 LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2025 LONGLISTED FOR THE WINGATE PRIZE 2025 An exhilarating tale of twisted desire, histories and homes, and the unexpected shape of revenge - for...
Stone yard devotional
Wood, Charlotte
Paper Book
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024 THE NEW NOVEL BY THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE WEEKEND A Book of the Year for the Guardian, Sydney Morning Herald and ABC 'The fact that Stone Yard Devotional not only stays aloft...

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