The Longlist for the 2019 Mako Prize

• A Ladder to the Sky – John Boyne
• An Orchestra of Minorities – Chigozie Obioma
• Ask Again, Yes – Mary Beth Keane
• Boy Swallows Universe – Trent Dalton
• City of Girls – Elizabeth Gilbert
• Daisy Jones & the Six – Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Fleishman Is in Trouble – Taffy Brodesser-Akner
• Gingerbread – Helen Oyeyemi
• Killing Commendatore – Haruki Murakami
• Melmoth – Sarah Perry
• My Sister, the Serial Killer – Oyinkan Braithwaite
• Normal People – Sally Rooney
• Ohio – Stephen Markley
• Once Upon a River – Diane Setterfield
• The Chelsea Girls – Fiona Davis
• The Dreamers – Karen Thompson Walker
• The Editor – Steven Rowley
• The Far Field – Madhuri Vijay
• The Friend – Sigrid Nunez
• The Golden Hour – Beatriz Williams
• The Huntress – Kate Quinn
• The Island of Sea Women – Lisa See
• The Nickel Boys – Colson Whitehead
• The Night Tiger – Yangsze Choo
• The River – Peter Heller
• The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna – Juliet Grames
• The Silence of the Girls – Pat Barker
• The Third Hotel – Laura van den Berg
• Transcription – Kate Atkinson
• Unsheltered – Barbara Kingsolver
• Where the Crawdads Sing – Delia Owens
• Women Talking – Miriam Toews

​These 32 titles are the longlist for the 2019 Mako Prize. The group stage ends in late September.