A list of selected names or things from which a shortlist is to be compiled.
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Smith was on nobody's longlist for chairman
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These are the most nominated blogs in each category, and it's more a longlist than a shortlist really.
There is a longlist of 20 and a shortlist of 6, and the judges are all female too.
Publishers may enter up to three titles per imprint and the judges will meet to decide upon an initial longlist, which they will all read.
Honestly, I can't be bothered reading these three novels just for the sake of completing the now-irrelevant longlist.
Positive reviews and reputations do indeed gather their own momentum regardless of the quality of the author's most recent novel, and today's Booker longlist is evidence of the fact.
First of all, if the idea is to celebrate 25 years of the Brits, shouldn't this longlist have been the Best Single from each year of the awards?
Once you're a winner - of anything - you'll probably be invited for a drink with whomever it is who takes this year's Man Booker Prize, for which the longlist was recently announced.
This was the first book I read on the Booker longlist.
It was quite a spin-out to encounter, this far down the Booker longlist, a novel set in Adelaide.
A young Cumbrian author has made it onto the longlist for one of the literary world's most prestigious prizes.
When the Man Booker Prize longlist was announced last month, reporters were delighted to see his name on it.
From the original entry of 130 novels, a longlist of 20 contenders was released a couple of weeks ago.
The award is unusual in that the longlist is selected by readers.
Reading the Booker longlist is great fun - I've been really impressed by the standard of the novels, and I've read quite a few that I wouldn't otherwise have picked up.
The longlist of 22 for this year's Man Booker Prize has been scythed down to just six names, but the spin imparted to the number of first-time novelists on the longlists must now cease.
Gratifyingly, Alex's best-of-all-time longlist included our own top six names, with passing mentions for Beckenbauer, Müller and Neeskens.
Please note that submissions for the prize are not invited - the judges will be compiling their own longlists.
verbˈlɒŋlɪst
[with object]
Place on a longlist.
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a science centre in Glasgow is one of the projects longlisted for Millennium Commission funds
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The novel was longlisted for the Booker Prize when it was released, and remains a cult classic.
Her last novel, Dogside Story, was longlisted for the Booker but didn't even get her onto the runners-up podium in 2002.
Shalimar was longlisted for this year's Man Booker Prize but then inexplicably excluded from the shortlist.
Linda's most recent novel, Still Here, was longlisted for the Booker Prize.