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Not the Booker longlist: vote now to decide the 2018 shortlist

Our intitial poll has put more than 140 novels in contention. We need your learned opinions to winnow this down to a shortlist next week

It’s time for the Not The Booker longlist. Just like every year, it feels like we need it. As you might have seen, the actual Man Booker longlist was released last week and, well … Let’s try not to be rude. At least there are some admirably unusual choices on there. It’s also inevitable that the judges of that prize are going to miss off some beauties, because they only get to choose 12 books. And that’s where we come in. Our longlist is actually genuinely long. Thanks to all the nominations we’ve received, we’ve got a giant roster of more than 140 novels – and plenty of them are superb.

It’s very pleasing to see so many books get some time in the sun, but this list is also rather unwieldy and needs pruning into shape. We need you to vote to decide on the five books that will go on our shortlist – before our judges’ panel gets involved and add its wildcard entry to bring the total up to six.

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