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The Booker Prize 2022

The longlist for the Booker Prize 2022 – the leading literary award in the English speaking world – has been announced, with a ‘Booker Dozen’ selected. Find out more about the list.

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Shehan Karunatilaka

Treacle Walker

Alan Garner

Small Things Like These: Winner of the Orwell Prize

Claire Keegan

Glory

NoViolet Bulawayo

The Colony: The International Bestseller

Audrey Magee

BOOTH: From the million copy bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Karen Joy Fowler

The Trees

Percival Everett

Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies

Maddie Mortimer

Nightcrawling: 'An electrifying debut'

Leila Mottley

Trust

Hernan Diaz

Oh William!: From the author of My Name is Lucy Barton

Elizabeth Strout

Case Study

Graeme Macrae Burnet

After Sappho

Selby Wynn Schwartz

Yearbook 2022

The results are in! To celebrate National Reading Group Day, we asked you for your recommendations for our 2022 Yearbook – the books that have made your group laugh, cry debate and more over the past year. We loved reading your recommendations and had a hard time selecting which books to put on our list. We hope that you enjoy them! Tell us what you thought of any of the books on the list by tagging us on social media using #booklist and tagging @readingagency!