Of the Booker fiction prize 2022, that is. I feel like I’ve been neglectful of all the other works that made it to the last or the last but one round. So here is the so-called long list and the short listed finalists. I have read but one – Elizabeth Strout’s Oh William!
Long List announced on July 26:
- The Colony by Audrey McGee
- After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz
- Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo
- Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
- Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
- Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer
- Case Study by Graeme Macrea Burnet
- Treacle Walker by Alan Garner
- The Trees by Percival Everett
- Trust by Hernan Diaz
- The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
- Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
- Booth by Karen Joy Fowler
Short list announced on September 6:
The winner we now know.
I should say that the Booker website is an absolute treasure trove, including reading guides for the shortlisted books, quizzes that may (or may not) help one decide on what to read (or read not), information on the judges (Neil MacGregor was Chair this year), extracts, interviews and videos. And a featured list of works from Hilary Mantel as a tribute to her place in Booker history, in British writing – of their own history but not only.