The prize is one of the most prestigious awards in literature. This year's crop of nominees includes two debut novelists going up against a previous Booker Prize winner.
Here are the 13 books that made the Booker Prize longlist
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An epic fable about two young Indian writers. A dark comedy about a loner who gets a job as a chauffeur for the mega-rich. A book about a Ukrainian ecologist studying snails that turns int... [909 chars]