The Booker Prize 2022 longlist includes four books of genre interest, titles shown in boldface.
The list also includes the historical novel Booth by Karen Joy Fowler, a writer with a deep resume of sff works.
- Audrey Magee, The Colony (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho (Liveright)
- NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory (Viking)
- Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These (Grove Press)
- Leila Mottley, Nightcrawling (Knopf)
- Maddie Mortimer, Maps of our Spectacular Bodies (Scribner)
- Graeme Macrae Burnet, Case Study (Biblioasis)
- Alan Garner, Treacle Walker (4th Estate, HarperCollins)
- Percival Everett, The Trees (Graywolf Press)
- Hernan Diaz, Trust (Riverhead Books)
- Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (Sort Of Books)
- Elizabeth Strout, Oh William! (Random House)
- Karen Joy Fowler, Booth (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)
The shortlist will be unveiled on September 6, and the winner will be announced on October 17.
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While it’s subject matter might not be genre, I think the fact that “Booth” was written by Karen Joy Fowler, a writer who works both inside and outside of the F&SF field, would be of some genre interest.
Joel Zakem: I agree. That’s why I said so in the post.
Interesting to see Alan Garner on the list: a long career.