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    Here’s the 2024 Booker Prize shortlist.

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    September 16, 2024, 2:18pm

    Today, the Booker Prizes announced their 2024 shortlist: six books narrowed down from the “Booker’s Dozen” (otherwise known as the longlist of 13), chosen from a starting pool of 156 books written in English and published between October 2023 and September 2024. Shortlisters are awarded £2,500 and the winner will take home £50,000, on top of the resultant sales and bragging rights. This year, in case you were wondering, there are zero Pauls in the running.

    Here’s the shortlist:

    Percival Everett, James
    Samantha Harvey, Orbital
    Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake
    Anne Michaels, Held
    Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep
    Charlotte Wood, Stone Yard Devotional

    This year’s judges are Edmund de Waal (Chair), Sara Collins, Justine Jordan, Yiyun Li, and Nitin Sawhney. The winner will be announced on Tuesday, November 12, in London.

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