At 10am BST, the previously-announced longlist was whittled down once more.
The latest stage in the competition precedes the prize-giving on October 17, when the eventual winner will be revealed.
Paul Auster, Emily Fridlund, Mohsin Hamid, Fiona Mozley, George Saunders and Ali Smith are this year’s lucky half a dozen authors.
The lucky writers are an eclectic bunch: Mozley is a 29-year-old who works part-time at a York bookshop, while veteran writer Auster is 70 – 4 3 2 1 is his first release in seven years.
Smith has been nominated three times previously, while Hamid was previously on the shortlist in 2007.
See the full list of titles – along with longlisted works that didn’t make the cut – below.
The longlist, with highlighted shortlisted novels, is:
- 4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster (US) – SHORTLISTED
- Days Without End by Sebastian Barry (Ireland)
- History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund (US) – SHORTLISTED
- Exit West by Mohsin Hamid (Pakistan-UK) – SHORTLISTED
- Solar Bones by Mike McCormack (Ireland)
- Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor (UK)
- Elmet by Fiona Mozley (UK) – SHORTLISTED
- The Ministry Of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy (India)
- Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders (US) – SHORTLISTED
- Home Fire by Kamila Shamsie (UK-Pakistan)
- Autumn by Ali Smith (UK) – SHORTLISTED
- Swing Time by Zadie Smith (UK)
- The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (US)
The competition is judged by Baroness Lola Young, Lila Azam Zanganeh, Sarah Hall, Tom Phillips and Colin Thubron.
Last year’s winner was The Sellout by Paul Beatty, while A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James was victorious in 2015.
Earlier this year the International Prize was won by Israel’s David Grossman with A Horse Walks Into A Bar.