Where were Ben Lerner and Amitav Ghosh? The biggest Booker longlist snubs

Fan favourites that missed the Booker call, (Image: via amazon.in/Generated with AI) Each year, the Booker Prize longlists lead to a lot of debate and disappointment, with many bibliophiles, book influencers and book critics putting out their Booker predictions ahead of the Booker longlist reveal. Some nail it, others fume at the injustice of it all. With this year’s Booker longlist rewarding “risk,” and judge Patricia Lockwood going so far as to call it “a return of weird literature,” many heavyweights, bookies and fan favourites were conspicuous in their absence.Here are the popular titles that got the Booker snub: Transcription— Ben Lerner Touted as the biggest omission by multiple literary critics, Ben Lerner’s slim novel is a meditation on the impact of technology on real human connec