13 books from the Booker Prize 2023 longlist

Strengthen your bookshelves, because it’s time to add 13 new titles to your to-be-read list, as the Booker Prize 2023 longlist is announced.

The 13 books chosen by this year’s judges are all linked by the quality of their storytelling, but there are also other things the books have in common. The titles are:

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