Five out of the six authors short-listed are women, including Anne Michaels and Rachel Kushner.
The 2024 Booker Prize shortlist has been announced, with the largest number of women represented in its 55-year history.
Everett's James is a retelling of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, written from the perspective of the runaway slave, Jim. He added that they are all "books that made us want to keep on reading, to ring up friends and tell them about them, novels that inspired us to write, to score music.Orbital, by Samantha Harvey, contemplates the world from a different viewpoint as her novel follows a team of astronauts in the International Space Station.The queer love story is set in post Nazi-era Netherlands and sees a lonely young woman's life upended when she has a guest to stay at her country home.
She added: “These books rose to the top on merit - they are tremendous books but… it was such a gratifying, surprising, thrilling moment to realise.
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