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Booker prize 2024: the six shortlisted books reviewed by our experts

From a longlist of 13, six novels have been shortlisted for the 2024 Booker prize. Our academics review the finalists ahead of the announcement of the winner on November 12.

The Conversation

Booker Prize 2024: Women dominate shortlist as all six authors tackle ‘fault lines of our times’

Shortlist for the prestigious literary prize features the largest number of women it its 55-year history

The Independent UK

Percival Everett and Rachel Kushner make the 2024 Booker prize shortlist

The six finalists include five books by women – the highest number of female writers shortlisted in the prize’s 55-year history

The Guardian - UK

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Each of the six Booker novels does something unique

As the Guardian’s fiction editor, I’ve been writing about the Booker prize for years. Now, as a judge, I’ve seen behind the curtain

The Guardian - UK

Women dominate this year's Booker Prize shortlist ahead of £50,000 winner being announced

It is a record breaking year for women writers

Evening Standard

Three British authors nominated for the Booker Prize longlist

This year’s prize features three debut novelists and six previously nominated writers

Evening Standard

This Booker longlist might just be the most enjoyable of recent years

No Sally Rooney, one clear favourite and a novel set in space - this is a longlist of unexpected discoveries and big ideas

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Three British novelists make Booker 2024 longlist among ‘cohort of global voices’

Hisham Matar, Sarah Perry and Samantha Harvey in running for prize, along with the first Native American and Dutch authors ever to be nominated

The Guardian - UK

Booker Prize announces 13 books on ‘glorious’ longlist of ‘timeless and timely fiction’

This year’s longlist spotlights stories about belonging and displacement, featuring literary heavyweights such as Richard Powers and Percival Everett alongside a clutch of debut novelists

The Independent UK

Best books of 2023: The Marie Claire reading list of the must-reads and page-turners

Kindles at the ready, Readers – our round-up of new releases and recommended favourites for 2023 is designed to give you a TBR list to treasure throughout the year

Marie Claire

Orbital by Samantha Harvey – an extraordinary tale of our place in the cosmos

Over the course of a day, six astronauts reflect on their relationship with Earth in Harvey’s profound and lyrical fifth novel

The Guardian - UK

Orbital by Samantha Harvey review – the astronaut’s view

Six people make an ecstatic voyage around Earth in this finely crafted meditation on hope, beauty, the ordinary and the spectacular

The Guardian - UK

Samantha Harvey: ‘I like Alien as much as anybody else. But I see this novel as space pastoral’

The novelist who’s been likened to Virginia Woolf on her new book set on the International Space Station, how insomnia has changed the way she thinks – and her fascination with time and faith

The Guardian - UK

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