The International Booker Prize is my favourite literary prize I like to follow. Every year I am excited to see the longlist and hope to be able to read it in its entirety. As I am in Australia, this is always a difficult task. When the longlist drops, I often scramble to see if my library has the books to reserve and every year I hope that I have read a large portion of the list to make things easier. This year is going to be a challenge, I do not own any of these books. I know I will not complete the entire longlist before the winner is announced, I create this post to make it easier for me to track my progress.

• Ninth Building by Zou Jingzhi (translated by Jeremy Tiang)
• A System So Magnificent It Is Blinding by Amanda Svensson (translated by Nichola Smalley)
• Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel (translated by Rosalind Harvey)
• Pyre by Perumal Murugan (translated by Aniruddhan Vasudevan)
• While We Were Dreaming by Clemens Meyer (translated by Katy Derbyshire)
• The Birthday Party by Laurent Mauvignier (translated by Daniel Levin Becker)
• Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv by Andrey Kurkov (translated by Reuben Woolley)
• Is Mother Dead by Vigdis Hjorth (translated by Charlotte Barslund)
• Standing Heavy by GauZ’ (translated by Frank Wynne)
• Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov (translated by Angela Rodel)
• The Gospel According to the New World by Maryse Condé (translated by Richard Philcox)
• Whale by Cheon Myeong-kwan (translated by Chi-Young Kim)
• Boulder by Eva Baltasar (translated by Julia Sanches)