The Man Booker Prize just announced their longlist of titles being considered for their 2014 fiction prize. This is literary news of a sort—prizes like this being a boon for time-challenged readers looking for help in figuring out what to read next—but nothing that extraordinary in itself. After all, this happens every year.

But here’s something different: For the first time in the prize’s 46 years, the list includes writers from beyond the UK and Commonwealth. In short, that means a couple of Americans have been allowed in; though as Publishers Weekly notes, not Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch, which you will recall won (perhaps undeservingly, I and some others would argue) this year’s Pulitzer for fiction.

Here’s the full list, via PW (who helpfully annotated with author nationalities):

The 2014 Man Booker Longlist

• Joshua Ferris (American) To Rise Again at a Decent Hour(Viking)
• Richard Flanagan (Australian) The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Chatto & Windus)
• Karen Joy Fowler (American) We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (Serpent’s Tail)
• Siri Hustvedt (American) The Blazing World (Sceptre)
• Howard Jacobson (British) J (Jonathan Cape)
• Paul Kingsnorth (British) The Wake (Unbound)
• David Mitchell (British) The Bone Clocks (Sceptre)
• Neel Mukherjee (British) The Lives of Others (Chatto & Windus)
• David Nicholls (British) Us (Hodder & Stoughton)
• Joseph O’Neill (Irish/American) The Dog (Fourth Estate)
• Richard Powers (American) Orfeo (Atlantic Books)
• Ali Smith (British) How to be Both (Hamish Hamilton)
• Niall Williams (Irish) History of the Rain (Bloomsbury)