The Booker Prize announced its shortlist, with a winner to be named in October (titles excerpted in our Buzz Books samplers are noted with a *):
NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory (Viking)*
Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These (Grove Press)*
Alan Garner, Treacle Walker (4th Estate, HarperCollins)
Percival Everett, The Trees (Graywolf Press)
Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (Sort Of Books, forthcoming from Norton)
Elizabeth Strout, Oh William! (Random House)
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