{"id":10331,"date":"2025-01-08T22:28:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T22:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/books\/the-booker-prize-2023-longlist\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T22:28:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T22:28:30","slug":"the-booker-prize-2023-longlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=10331","title":{"rendered":"The Booker Prize 2023 Longlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-8877\">\n<p>\t\tAugust 7, 2023 \u00b7 4:52 pm\t<\/p>\n<p><!-- .entry-meta --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry entry-content\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alittleblogofbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/img_0961.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8880\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/alittleblogofbooks.com\/2023\/08\/07\/the-booker-prize-2023-longlist\/img_0961\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/alittleblogofbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/img_0961.webp\" data-orig-size=\"1200,900\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"The Booker Prize Longlist 2023\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/alittleblogofbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/img_0961.webp?w=300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/alittleblogofbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/img_0961.webp?w=500\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8880 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/alittleblogofbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/img_0961.webp?w=500&amp;h=375\" alt=\"The Booker Prize Longlist 2023\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alittleblogofbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/img_0961.webp?w=500 500w, https:\/\/alittleblogofbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/img_0961.webp?w=1000 1000w, https:\/\/alittleblogofbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/img_0961.webp?w=150 150w, https:\/\/alittleblogofbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/img_0961.webp?w=300 300w, https:\/\/alittleblogofbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/img_0961.webp?w=768 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\"\/><\/a>The Booker Prize longlist was announced on Tuesday. The 13 titles are:<\/p>\n<p><em>A Spell of Good Things by Ay\u1ecd\u0300b\u00e1mi Ad\u00e9b\u00e1y\u1ecd\u0300<\/em><br \/><em>Old God\u2019s Time by Sebastian Barry<\/em><br \/><em>Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein<\/em><br \/><em>If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery<\/em><br \/><em>How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney<\/em><br \/><em>This Other Eden by Paul Harding<\/em><br \/><em>Pearl by Si\u00e2n Hughes<\/em><br \/><em>All the Little Bird-Hearts by Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow<\/em><br \/><em>Prophet Song by Paul Lynch<\/em><br \/><em>In Ascension by Martin MacInnes<\/em><br \/><em>Western Lane by Chetna Maroo<\/em><br \/><em>The Bee Sting by Paul Murray<\/em><br \/><em>The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-8877\"\/>I correctly guessed two out of the 13 titles in my <a href=\"https:\/\/alittleblogofbooks.com\/2023\/07\/22\/the-booker-prize-2023-predictions-possibilities-and-preferences\/\">predictions post<\/a> last month \u2013 \u2018Old God\u2019s Time\u2019 by Sebastian Barry which is the Irish author\u2019s fifth nomination and \u2018The House of Doors\u2019 by Tan Twan Eng. I\u2019ve had copies of Tan\u2019s two other novels on my Kindle for several years, so perhaps it\u2019s time for me to finally read those.<\/p>\n<p>Ten of the authors recognised this year have been longlisted for the first time, four of which are debut novelists. \u2018All the Little Bird-Hearts\u2019 by Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow about an autistic woman and her teenage daughter sounds particularly intriguing, as does \u2018Western Lane\u2019 by Chetna Maroo about a young girl coping with grief and channelling it through sport.<\/p>\n<p>As well as Barry, three other Irish authors have made the cut, although sadly not \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/alittleblogofbooks.com\/2023\/07\/15\/books-i-read-in-june-2023\/\">Soldier Sailor<\/a>\u2019 by Claire Kilroy. I have also been meaning to read \u2018Skippy Dies\u2019 by Paul Murray for some time, and \u2018As You Were\u2019 by Elaine Feeney has been widely recommended too, so at the moment this longlist is mostly prompting me to look at the nominated author\u2019s backlists as well as their most recent work.<\/p>\n<p>The shortlist will be announced on Thursday 21 September. What are your thoughts on this year\u2019s longlist?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<p>\t<!-- .entry-links --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 7, 2023 \u00b7 4:52 pm The Booker Prize longlist was announced on Tuesday. The 13 titles are: A Spell of Good Things by Ay\u1ecd\u0300b\u00e1mi Ad\u00e9b\u00e1y\u1ecd\u0300Old God\u2019s Time by Sebastian BarryStudy for Obedience by Sarah BernsteinIf I Survive You by Jonathan EscofferyHow to Build a Boat by Elaine FeeneyThis Other Eden by Paul HardingPearl by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[5198,4741,4211],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-10331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-booker","tag-longlist","tag-prize"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Booker Prize 2023 Longlist - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=10331\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Booker Prize 2023 Longlist - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"August 7, 2023 \u00b7 4:52 pm The Booker Prize longlist was announced on Tuesday. 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