--- title: Man Booker Prize: Here Is The 2016 Longlist description: The 2016 Man Booker Prize longlist is here, and this year's selection of 13 novels is roughly half men (seven) and half women (six) canonical: https://time.com/4425925/2016-man-booker-prize-longlist/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-27T13:46:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T23:34:51.455Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Here Is the 2016 Man Booker Prize Longlist og:description: Five American novels made the list og:url: https://time.com/4425925/2016-man-booker-prize-longlist/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here Is the 2016 Man Booker Prize Longlist twitter:description: Five American novels made the list twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Here Is the 2016 Man Booker Prize Longlist by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Jul 27, 2016 1:46 PM UTC by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Jul 27, 2016 1:46 PM UTC The 2016 Man Booker Prize longlist is here, and this year’s selection of 13 novels is roughly half men (seven) and half women (six). Although the prize was historically limited to authors from the U.K, the Commonwealth, Ireland and Zimbabwe, 2016 is the third year it is open to anyone writing in English and published in the U.K. The longlist includes five American writers, the [same number as last year](http://time.com/3976615/man-booker-longlist-2015/). On the list is author J.M. Coetzee, who has won the Man Booker Prize twice before, once in 1983 for his novel _Life & Times of Michael K_ and again in 1999 with the novel _Disgrace_. Other longlisters include Deborah Levy, who was previously shortlisted for the prize, and A.L. Kennedy, a prize judge in 1996\. The list also includes four debut novels: _Hystopia_ by David Means, _The Many_ by Wyl Menmuir, _Eileen_ by Ottessa Moshfegh and _Work Like Any Other_ by Virginia Reeves. Paul Beatty (US) – _The Sellout_ J.M. Coetzee (South African-Australian) – _The Schooldays of Jesus_ A.L. Kennedy (UK) – _Serious Sweet_ Deborah Levy (UK) – _Hot Milk_ Graeme Macrae Burnet (UK) – _His Bloody Project_ Ian McGuire (UK) – _The North Water_ David Means (US) – _Hystopia_ Wyl Menmuir (UK) – _The Many_ Ottessa Moshfegh (US) – _Eileen_ Virginia Reeves (US) – _Work Like Any Other_ Elizabeth Strout (US) – _My Name Is Lucy Barton_ David Szalay (Canada-UK) – _All That Man Is_ Madeleine Thien (Canada) – _Do Not Say We Have Nothing_ The shortlist of six books will be announced Sept. 13 and the winner will be announced Oct. 25\. Shortlisted authors will each receive £2,500 and the winner will get an additional £50,000\. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4425925/2016-man-booker-prize-longlist/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4425925/2016-man-booker-prize-longlist/"},"headline":"Here Is the 2016 Man Booker Prize Longlist","datePublished":"2016-07-27T13:46:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T23:34:51.455Z","description":"Five American novels made the list","url":"https://time.com/4425925/2016-man-booker-prize-longlist/","keywords":["Books"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/books/","name":"Books"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4425925/2016-man-booker-prize-longlist/","name":"Here Is the 2016 Man Booker Prize Longlist"}}]}] ```