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- Percival Everett is 5/2 favourite to win the 2024 Booker Prize
- Winning author receives £50,000 prize
- 13 book longlist was announced back in July
Percival Everett is 5/2 favourite to win the 2024 Booker Prize
The 2024 Booker Prize is almost upon us and now UK Betting Sites are offering odds on who will win the event this year with Percival Everett the clear favourite in the betting market.
Everett has been nominated on the longlist for the award with is described by the Booker Prize site themselves as the 'world’s most influential prize for a single work of fiction'.
The American writer was shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize for his novel 'The Trees' and 2 years on is on the longlist for 'James' which is a reimagining of Mark Twain's famous book 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' from the perspective of Jim.
Ladbrokes latest odds have Everett as the 5/2 favourite in the market which gives an implied probability of 28.6% that he wins the award later this year.
| Booker Prize 2024 Winner | Odds | Probability |
|---|---|---|
| James by Percival Everett | 5/2 | 28.6% |
| My Friends by Hisham Matar | 5/1 | 16.7% |
| This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud | 6/1 | 14.3% |
| Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange | 6/1 | 14.3% |
| Wild Houses by Colin Barrett | 7/1 | 12.5% |
What the expert says...
Winning author receives £50,000 prize
This year's Booker Prize will be awarded at a ceremony at Old Billingsgate in London on Tuesday, 12 November with the winner receiving a £50,000 award.
There will always also be a boost in sales of the book too with the reporting of the winner instantly seeing huge attraction worldwide from people wanting to read the book.
Last year's winner was Irish writer Paul Lynch's novel Prophet Song and it became Ireland’s bestselling book of 2023 with help from the Booker Prize popularity.
Betting on the Booker Prize Winner 2024
13 book longlist was announced back in July
13 books have been placed on the longlist for the Booker Prize and that longlist will be shortened down to just 6 on Monday 16th September.
Eight women and five men have been nominated including six writers that have previously been nominated for the Booker Prize.
The longlist in full is as follows:
- Colin Barrett (Irish) Wild Houses (Jonathan Cape)
- Rita Bullwinkel (American) Headshot (Daunt Originals)
- Percival Everett (American) James (Mantle)
- Samantha Harvey (British) Orbital (Jonathan Cape)
- Rachel Kushner (American) Creation Lake (Jonathan Cape)
- Hisham Matar (British/Libyan) My Friends (Viking)
- Claire Messud (Canadian/American) This Strange Eventful History (Fleet)
- Anne Michaels (Canadian) Held (Bloomsbury Publishing)
- Tommy Orange (American) Wandering Stars (Harvill Secker)
- Sarah Perry (British) Enlightenment (Jonathan Cape)
- Richard Powers (American) Playground (Hutchinson Heinemann)
- Yael van der Wouden (Dutch) The Safekeep (Viking)
- Charlotte Wood (Australian) Stone Yard Devotional (Sceptre)
