man booker 2014 longlist announced

Well, here it is! the first Man Booker longlist including for the first time a diverse list of authors who write in English from all around the world. This is significant as entries were previously only available to British and Commonwealth authors.

New Zealand author Eleanor Catton, winner of the 2013 prize, commented:  "I think it's a really great thing that finally we've got a prize that is an English-language prize that doesn't make a distinction for writers who are writing from a particular country."

The winning entry will walk away with not only the title of 'Best Novel' but a cash prize of 50,000 pounds. The shortlist will be announced September 9th and the winning novel will be revealed on October 14.


To Rise Again at a Decent Hour, Joshua Ferris (Viking)
The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan (Chatto & Windus)
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler (Serpent's Tail)
The Blazing World, Siri Hustvedt (Sceptre)
J,  Howard Jacobson (Jonathan Cape) 
The Wake, Paul Kingsnorth (Unbound)
The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell (Sceptre)
The Lives of Others, Neel Mukherjee (Chatto & Windus)
Us, David Nicholls (Hodder & Stoughton)
The Dog, Joseph O'Neill (Fourth Estate)
Orfeo, Richard Powers (Atlantic Books)
How to be Both,  Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton)
History of the Rain, Niall Williams (Bloomsbury)

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