What Should You Read from the 2024 International Booker Longlist?

The International Booker Prize is a literary award voted on annually for the finest single work of fiction from around the world which has been translated into English and published in the UK and/or Ireland in the last year.

They released the longlist of nominees yesterday, and I think it’d be fun to read a few - BUT WHICH ONES?

I put together a brief version of what is avaliable on the booker website to help decide!

https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booke...

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00:00 Intro to the list
03:18 Simpatía
04:12 Not a River
04:59 Kairos
05:56 The Details
06:43 White Nights
07:31 Mater 2-10
08:26 A Dictator Calls
09:28 The Silver Bone
10:02 What I'd Rather Not Think About
10:47 Lost on Me
11:26 The House on Via Gemito
12:25 Crooked Plow
13:07 Undiscovered
14:04 My Selects
15:34 Are there any from the list you want to read?

media mentioned this episode:
Simpatía by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón
Not a River by Selva Almada
Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck
The Details by Ia Genberg
White Nights by Urszula Honek
Mater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-yong
A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare
The Silver Bone by Andrey Kurkov
What I'd Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma
Lost on Me by Veronica Raimo
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The House on Via Gemito by Domenico Starnone
Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior
Undiscovered by Gabriela Wiener


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