The Man Booker Prize was established in 1969. Here's the longlist for 2017.
Days Without End
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'Time was not something then we thought of as an item that possessed an ending, but something that...
The History of Wolves
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Linda has an idiosyncratic home life: her parents live in abandoned commune cabins in northern...
Solar Bones
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Marcus Conway has come a long way to stand in the kitchen of his home and remember the rhythms and...
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American War
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An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one...
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Kiss of Steel
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Honoria Todd has more secrets than most people and she's hiding them in Whitechapel. Blade is the...
Steampunk vampires romance urban fantasy
The Crown's Fate
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Magic is growing, shadows are rising, and the throne is at stake… Russia is on the brink of...
Russia Magic Revolution
Girls Made of Snow and Glass
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Frozen meets The Bloody Chamber in this feminist fantasy reimagining of the Snow White fairytale ...
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
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Colonel Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4,000 hours...
The Orwell Prize is Britain’s most prestigious prize for political writing. Here is the 2017 longlist:
The Seven: The Lives and Legacies of the Founding Fathers of the Irish Republic
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On Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the seven members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood's military...
The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography, 2017 Hisham Matar was 19 when his...
Libya Politics Biography
The Marches
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LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2017. "This is travel writing at its best." (Katherine Norbury,...
The Life Project: The Extraordinary Story of Our Ordinary Lives
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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 ORWELL PRIZE 'Eye-opening, extraordinary insights into ordinary lives'...
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The Wellcome Book Prize celebrates the best new books that engage with an aspect of medicine, health or illness.
Miss Jane
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Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction: Astonishing prose brings to life a forgotten...
Biography memoir social issues
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
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This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to...
The Essex Serpent
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Essex Serpent Strange News Out of Essex...'One of the most memorable historical novels of...
Cure: A Journey into the Science of Mind Over Body
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR...
The Golden Age
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The Golden Age is an immensely satisfying and generous-hearted story about displacement, recovery,...
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