The Booker Prize named its 13-title longlist. Finalists will be announced on September 22:
The Shadow of the Object, by Chloe Aridjis (Semiotext(e)/Chatto & Windus)
Switzy, by Emma Cline (Random House/Chatto & Windus)
Helen of Nowhere, by Makenna Goodman (Coffee House Press/Fitzcarraldo)
The End of Everything, by M. John Harrison (Riverhead/Serpent’s Tail)
The Disappearers, by Marlon James (Riverhead/Hamish Hamilton)
Black Bag, by Luke Kennard (Zando/John Murray)
The Renovation, by Kenan Orhan (FSG/Hamish Hamilton)
May We Feed the King, by Rebecca Perry (Transit Books; the publisher announced they are moving up the US pub date to 9/29 and increasing the print run to 55,000/Granta)
The Palm House, by Gwendoline Riley (NYRB/Picador)
The Things We Never Say, by Elizabeth Strout (Random House/Viking)
John of John, by Douglas Stuart (Grove/Picador)
All Them Dogs, by Djamel White (Riverhead/John Murray)
The Vivisectors, by Missouri Williams (MCD/4th Estate)
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