The Man Booker Prize aims to promote the finest in fiction by rewarding the best novel of the year originally written in English and published in the UK. The books longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize are:
Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg
The Green Road by Anne Enright (CD book)
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James (eBook)
The Moor’s Account by Laila Lalami
Satin Island by Tom McCarthy
The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma
The Illuminations by Andrew O’Hagan
Lila by Marilynne Robinson (CD book, downloadable audiobook, eBook)
Sleeping on Jupiter by Anuradha Roy
The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota
The Chimes by Anna Smaill
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler (CD book, downloadable audiobook, eBook, large print book)
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (eBook)
The shortlist will be announced on September 15, and the winner will be announced on October 13.