The Booker Prize Longlist will be announced next week. It is always difficult to predict which novels will make the cut. Sometimes there will be obvious contenders, but the Booker always throws in some surprises.
To be eligible, the novel has to have been written in English and published in UK/Ireland between 1 October 2021 and 30 September 2022. While I am not across when novels were published in UK/Ireland, I am going to take a guess at who might appear on the longlist.
My predictions are:
- Monica Ali - Love Marriage
- NoViolet Bulawayo - Glory
- Louise Erdrich - The Sentence
- Mohsin Hamid - The Last White Man
- Audrey Magee - The Colony
- Otessa Moshfegh - Lapvona
- Julie Otsuka - The Swimmers
- Douglas Stuart - Young Mungo
- Hanya Yanagihara - To Paradise
The longlist will be announced on 26 July, followed by the shortlist on 6 September and the winner announcement in October.