The 2024 Booker Dozen, announced on July 30 and selected from 156 submissions, features black comedies, multigenerational epics, meditations on exile and identity, plus a crime caper, a spy thriller, an unflinching account of girls’ boxing and a reimagining of a 19th century American classic. 

The panel is chaired by artist and author Edmund de Waal, who is joined by award-winning novelist Sara Collins, The Guardian fiction editor Justine Jordan, writer and professor Yiyun Li, and musician, composer and producer Nitin Sawhney. ..

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