Free Samples of the Man Booker Longlist

By Dianna Dilworth 

manbookerThe Man Booker Longlist has been revealed for 2014. While a number of the titles will be released later this year, we’ve collected free samples of many of the books on the list.

The shortlist will be revealed on September 9th and the winner announced on October 14th.

If you want more free book samples, we made similar literary mixtapes linking to free samples of 2013 Man Booker Longlist and the 2014 PEN Literary Award Nominees.

Free Samples of the Man Booker Longlist for 2014

To Rise Again at a Decent Hour, Joshua Ferris (Viking)

The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan (Chatto & Windus)
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler (Serpent’s Tail)
The Blazing World, Siri Hustvedt (Sceptre)
J,  (No sample available) Howard Jacobson (Jonathan Cape)
The Wake, Paul Kingsnorth (Unbound)
The Bone Clocks (No sample available), David Mitchell (Sceptre)
The Lives of Others (No sample available), Neel Mukherjee (Chatto & Windus)
Us (No sample available), David Nicholls (Hodder & Stoughton)
The Dog (No sample available), Joseph O’Neill (Fourth Estate)
Orfeo, Richard Powers (Atlantic Books)
How to be Both (No sample available),  Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton)
History of the Rain, Niall Williams (Bloomsbury)