The thirteen novels on the Booker Prize 2023 longlist revealed August 1 include two books of genre interest, titles shown in boldface.

• A Spell of Good Things by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
• Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry
• Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein
• If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery
• How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney
• This Other Eden by Paul Harding
• Pearl by Siân Hughes
• All the Little Bird-Hearts by Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow
• Prophet Song by Paul Lynch
• In Ascension by Martin MacInnes
• Western Lane by Chetna Maroo 
• The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
• The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng

JUDGES. Novelist Esi Edugyan, twice-shortlisted for the Booker Prize, is the chair of the 2023 judging panel and is joined by actor, writer and director Adjoa Andoh; poet, lecturer, editor and critic Mary Jean Chan; Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and Shakespeare specialist James Shapiro; and actor and writer Robert Webb. 

The shortlist of six books will follow on September 21. The winner of the £50,000 prize will be announced at an event at Old Billingsgate, London, on November 26.