Earlier this week, the Booker Prize Foundation announced its longlist, which, for the second year, includes books from authors outside of the UK, the Commonwealth, Ireland, and Zimbabwe. Historically, it had only been open to authors from the aforementioned geographical locations.

This year’s list has thirteen nominees, including: Bill Clegg (US) – Did You Ever Have a Family; Anne Enright (Ireland) – The Green Road; Marlon James (Jamaica) – A Brief History of Seven Killings; Laila Lalami (US) – The Moor’s Account; Tom McCarthy (UK) – Satin Island; Chigozie Obioma (Nigeria) – The Fishermen; Andrew O’Hagan (UK) – The Illuminations; Marilynne Robinson (US) – Lila; Anuradha Roy (India) – Sleeping on Jupiter; Sunjeev Sahota (UK) – The Year of the Runaways; Anna Smaill (New Zealand) – The Chimes; Anne Tyler (US) – A Spool of Blue Thread; and Hanya Yanagihara (US) – A Little Life.

One author from this list, Anne Enright, previously won a Man Booker Prize for her novel The Gathering (2007). Tom McCarthy, Andrew O’Hagan, and Marilynne Robinson have all previously been shortlisted for the award as well. (Robinson, however, was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize category, which now has been recast as an award for a book in translation.)

Michael Wood, chair of the Man Booker Prize judges, praised the results in an article for the Guardian. The longlist shows “many kinds of good novel,” Wood said, “and so the governing question we asked ourselves was not, what category does this book belong to, but, how good is this book?”

Wood added, “It has repeatedly been said, over many years, that the novel is dying, so it’s cheering to see it thriving in such good and varied shape.”

The longlist will be winnowed down to a shortlist on September 15, and the winner will be announced on October 13. The shortlisters will receive £2,500 ($3,918), and the winner will receive an additional £50,000 ($78,358).

Whose book should win the Prize? Learn more about the authors and their books at the Man Booker Prize website.