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13 books on the 2021 Book Prize longlist, one of the most prestigious literary awards

Collage of the books that are on the longlist to win the booker literary prize, including The Fortune Men, Light Perpetual and China Room 4x3

 

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The Booker Prize is a prestigious literary prize, chosen by a panel of multidisciplinary experts and awarded annually to the best novel written in English and published in Ireland or the UK.

But before the Booker Prize Foundation shares its shorter list of six frontrunners (September 14, 2021) or the winner (November 2), it publishes its longlist — the year’s 13 “Booker dozen” forerunners.

It also doubles as a reading list for those who’d rather let experts cherry-pick the most exceptional books of the year. In past years, the details ⇒

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