Read extracts from the Booker Prize 2022 longlist

In Audrey Magee’s lyrical and brooding fable, two outsiders visit a small island off the west coast of Ireland, with unforeseen and haunting consequences. Read the opening chapter here

Graeme Macrae Burnet offers a dazzlingly inventive – and often wickedly humorous – meditation on the nature of sanity, identity and truth itself. Read the opening chapter here

Read the opening chapter from Nightcrawling; at once agonising and mesmerising, Leila Mottley presents a haunting vision of marginalised young people navigating the darkest corners of an adult world.

Read the opening from Percival Everett’s striking novel, which combines an unnerving murder mystery with a powerful condemnation of racism and police violence. 

Read the opening chapter from Claire Keegan’s tender tale of hope and quiet heroism. It is both a celebration of compassion and a stern rebuke of the sins committed in the name of religion. 

Under attack from within, Lia tries to keep the landscapes of her past, her present and her body separate. But time and bodies are porous, and unpredictable. Read the opening words here

Winner of the Booker Prize 2022, Shehan Karunatilaka’s rip-roaring epic is a searing, mordantly funny satire set amid the murderous mayhem of a Sri Lanka beset by civil war. Read our extract from the book’s first section

Read the opening words from Hernan Diaz’s literary puzzle about money, power, and intimacy, which challenges the myths shrouding wealth, and the fictions that often pass for history.

Read the first chapter of the latest fiction from a remarkable and enduring talent, which brilliantly illuminates an introspective young mind trying to make sense of the world around him. 

Read the opening words from Glory, an energetic and exhilarating joyride from NoViolet Bulawayo. The story of an uprising, told by a vivid chorus of animal voices that help us see our human world more clearly.

Karen Joy Fowler’s epic novel about an ill-fated family of thespians, drinkers and dreamers, whose most infamous son is destined to commit a terrible and violent act. Read the opening chapter here

Read the opening words from Oh William! where bestselling author Elizabeth Strout returns to her beloved heroine Lucy Barton in a luminous novel about love, loss, and the family secrets that can erupt and bewilder us at any time. 

After Sappho is a joyous reimagining of the lives of a brilliant group of feminists, sapphists, artists and writers from the past, as they battle for control over their lives, for liberation and for justice. Read the opening two chapters here