Longlist

The Orange Prize longlist is out, and the judges are complaining it was a miserable time going through the books. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Usually I'm wading in already with those "Here we go ... load of old rubbish" posts, "Here's the one I've hated, place your bets, it's bound to win" and the Booker longlist is the only time I do that, turkeys don't make it on here as a rule. ❋ Unknown (2007)

This year though, good news, the longlist is to be limited to 12 books. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The clothes on their backs sold 13 copies in the week ending 26 July and 144 in the following week (the longlist was announced on29 July). ❋ Maxine (2009)

His failure to make it past the longlist was the final setback in a frustrating year that also saw him lose out in October as Anne Enright scooped the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. ❋ William Harryman (2007)

As it stands, the longlist is a bothersome reminder of the still-prevalent flaws in the Academy's system. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Late last night, I learned that The Red Tree has made the "longlist" for the British Fantasy Award, which pleases me. ❋ Greygirlbeast (2010)

The "longlist" in circulation right now contains a dozen novels, which then get narrowed to five, then down to one. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One of the books on my "longlist" is Devil in the White City. ❋ Stephanie (2007)

Last year a DECC-lead feasibility study provided Ministers with a 'longlist' of potential options, which ranged from the huge - including solid barriers straddling the mouth of the estuary or further upstream - to the more modest - tidal lagoons cut into the banks of the river - and encompassing several options in between, such as a flexible tidal 'fence'. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Twenty-one novels were chosen last month for the longlist, and now six are on the shortlist. ❋ Unknown (2010)