{"id":7007,"date":"2025-01-08T22:07:03","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T22:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/books\/the-booker-prize-2024-longlist\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T22:07:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T22:07:03","slug":"the-booker-prize-2024-longlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=7007","title":{"rendered":"The Booker Prize 2024 Longlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-9198\">\n<p>\t\tAugust 2, 2024 \u00b7 5:56 pm\t<\/p>\n<p><!-- .entry-meta --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry entry-content\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alittleblogofbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/img_1048.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9203\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/alittleblogofbooks.com\/2024\/08\/02\/the-booker-prize-2024-longlist\/img_1048\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/alittleblogofbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/img_1048.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"275,183\" 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=\"Booker Prize 2024 Longlist\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/alittleblogofbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/img_1048.jpeg?w=275\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/alittleblogofbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/img_1048.jpeg?w=275\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9203\" src=\"https:\/\/alittleblogofbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/img_1048.jpeg\" alt=\"Booker Prize 2024 Longlist\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alittleblogofbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/img_1048.jpeg 275w, https:\/\/alittleblogofbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/img_1048.jpeg?w=150&amp;h=100 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Booker Prize longlist was announced on Tuesday. The 13 titles are:<\/p>\n<p><em>Wild Houses by Colin Barrett<\/em><br \/><em>Headshot by Rita Bullwinkel<\/em><br \/><em>James by Percival Everett<\/em><br \/><em>Orbital by Samantha Harvey<\/em><br \/><em>Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner<\/em><br \/><em>My Friends by Hisham Matar<\/em><br \/><em>This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud<\/em><br \/><em>Held by Anne Michaels<\/em><br \/><em>Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange<\/em><br \/><em>Enlightenment by Sarah Perry<\/em><br \/><em>Playground by Richard Powers<\/em><br \/><em>The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden<\/em><br \/><em>Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood<\/em><span id=\"more-9198\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-8877\"\/>I correctly guessed just one of the 13 titles in my <a href=\"https:\/\/alittleblogofbooks.com\/2024\/07\/28\/the-booker-prize-2024-predictions-preferences-and-possibilities\/\">predictions post<\/a> and I think \u2018James\u2019 by Percival Everett will have been on pretty much every other predictions list too, along with \u2018My Friends\u2019 by Hisham Matar about three friends living in political exile in London.<\/p>\n<p>Three debut novels made the cut, including \u2018Wild Houses\u2019 by Colin Barrett which was also the only Irish novel on the longlist. \u2018Stone Yard Devotional\u2019 by Charlotte Wood is the first Australian novel to be longlisted since J. M. Coetzee in 2016, and is set in a convent in rural New South Wales.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve had some mixed experiences with previous books by the longlisted authors. I enjoyed <a href=\"https:\/\/alittleblogofbooks.com\/2016\/05\/29\/the-essex-serpent-by-sarah-perry\/\">The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/alittleblogofbooks.com\/2014\/04\/06\/the-woman-upstairs-by-claire-messud\/\">The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud<\/a>, so I am looking forward to reading \u2018Enlightenment\u2019 and \u2018This Strange Eventful History\u2019. I didn\u2019t finish <a href=\"https:\/\/alittleblogofbooks.com\/2019\/10\/27\/the-overstory-by-richard-powers\/\">The Overstory by Richard Powers<\/a> which I thought had too many plot strands, and \u2018Playground\u2019 sounds similarly complex if not quite as long. I thought <a href=\"https:\/\/alittleblogofbooks.com\/2018\/11\/04\/the-mars-room-by-rachel-kushner\/\">The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner<\/a> was a bit messy, but \u2018Creation Lake\u2019 has an intriguing premise in which an American woman infiltrates an anarchist collective in France. I didn\u2019t love <a href=\"https:\/\/alittleblogofbooks.com\/2020\/09\/13\/three-memoirs-about-health-ive-read-recently\/\">The Shapeless Unease by Samantha Harvey<\/a> which is a non-fiction account of the author\u2019s experience of insomnia, and \u2018Orbital\u2019 sounds similarly baggy and plotless, so I will probably give that a miss.<\/p>\n<p>The shortlist will be announced on Monday 16 September. What do you think of 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 2, 2024 \u00b7 5:56 pm The Booker Prize longlist was announced on Tuesday. The 13 titles are: Wild Houses by Colin BarrettHeadshot by Rita BullwinkelJames by Percival EverettOrbital by Samantha HarveyCreation Lake by Rachel KushnerMy Friends by Hisham MatarThis Strange Eventful History by Claire MessudHeld by Anne MichaelsWandering Stars by Tommy OrangeEnlightenment by Sarah [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[5198,4741,4211],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-7007","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 2024 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=7007\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Booker Prize 2024 Longlist - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"August 2, 2024 \u00b7 5:56 pm The Booker Prize longlist was announced on Tuesday. 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