Booker Prize long long list

October 6, 2023 5:31 AM

Do any of you know where a person could find the list of all the books read for a particular Booker prize year?
posted by Rufous-headed Towhee heehee to Writing & Language (5 answers total)

This PDF includes the long list from 2020 back to 2001. Before that it’s just winner and shortlist going back to 1965. Wonder if the long list hasn’t always been part of it, or maybe the data is incomplete.
posted by multivalent at 5:45 AM on October 6, 2023

Response by poster: Clarification: I do not mean "the long list", that is indeed easily available, but as I said I mean the pile of books that they read at the beginning before they choose the long list. The original bunch from which everything else is chosen.
posted by Rufous-headed Towhee heehee at 6:59 AM on October 6, 2023

Best answer: There are lists on Goodreads of the Booker eligibility lists for each year. Nothing seems to link them together, but here are 2023, 2022 and 2020 - there are some others in the search results for lists here.
posted by urbanlenny at 7:37 AM on October 6, 2023 [2 favorites]

Best answer: Publishers submit books for consideration. Technically(I think) all books of fiction published in the UK that year are eligible, but I think the long list is really what most judges read. All judges read all of the short-listed books. rules.
posted by theora55 at 8:17 AM on October 6, 2023

Best answer: A couple years ago I tried to find such a list and came up empty. Automatic entries (previously shortlisted authors) shouldn't be difficult to figure out. But all the submissions made by publishers and the call-ins aren't revealed to the public as far as I can tell.

The following has appeared in the Booker Prize rules for at least the past three years:

"All submissions, call-in nominations and judges’ call-ins are made on a confidential basis as between publishers and the prize..."

posted by theory at 8:28 AM on October 6, 2023