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)

• Paradais by Fernanda Melchor (translated by Sophie Hughes)
• Heaven by Mieko Kawakami (translated by Sam Bett David Boyd)
• Love in the Big City by Sang Young Park (translated by Anton Hur)
• Happy Stories, Mostly by Norman Erikson Pasaribu (translated by Tiffany Tsao)
• Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro (translated by Frances Riddle)
• The Book of Mother by Violaine Huisman (translated by Leslie Camhi)
• More Than I Love My Life by David Grossman (translated by Jessica Cohen)
• Phenotypes by Paulo Scott (translated by Daniel Hahn)
• A New Name: Septology VI-VII by Jon Fosse (translated by Damion Searls)
• After the Sun by Jonas Eika (translated by Sherilyn Hellberg)
• Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree (translated by Daisy Rockwell)
• The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk (translated by Jennifer Croft)
• Cursed Bunny by Bora Chung (translated by Anton Hur)

• Wretchedness by Andrzej Tichý (translated by Nichola Smalley)
• An Inventory of Losses by Judith Schalansky (translated by Jackie Smith)
• At Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop (translated by Anna Moschovakis)
• I Live in the Slums by Can Xue (translated by Karen Gernant Chen Zeping)
• In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova (translated by Sasha Dugdale)
• Minor Detail by Adania Shibli (translated by Elisabeth Jaquette)
• Summer Brother by Jaap Robben (translated by David Doherty)
• The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez (translated by Megan McDowell)
• The Employees by Olga Ravn (translated by Martin Aitken)
• The Pear Field byNana Ekvtimishvili (translated by Elizabeth Heighway_
• The Perfect Nine by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (translated by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o)
• The War of the Poor by Éric Vuillard (translated by Mark Polizzotti)
• When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut (translated by Adrian Nathan West)