The longlist, or ‘The Booker Dozen’, for The 2020 Booker Prize was announced on Tuesday 28 July 2020.
This year’s longlist of 13 books was selected by a panel of five judges: Margaret Busby (chair), editor, literary critic and former publisher; Lee Child, author; Sameer Rahim, author and critic; Lemn Sissay, writer and broadcaster; and Emily Wilson, classicist and translator.
The list was chosen from 162 novels published in the UK or Ireland between 1 October 2019 and 30 September 2020.
The Booker Prize for Fiction is open to writers of any nationality, writing in English and published in the UK or Ireland.
The 2020 longlist, or ‘The Booker Dozen’, of 13 novels, is:
The New Wilderness by Diane Cook
This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga
Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi
Who They Was by Gabriel Krauze
The Mirror & The Light by Hilary Mantel
Apeirogon by Colum McCann
The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
Real Life by Brandon Taylor
Redhead by The Side of The Road by Anne Tyler
Love and Other Thought Experiments by Sophie Ward
How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang
Congratulations to the longlisted authors!