2009 Booker Prize Longlist

This morning, judges for the 2009 Man Booker Prize announced their annual bakers' dozen of fiction contenders, notably featuring "two former winners, four past-shortlisted writers, three first-time novelists and a span of styles and themes that make this an outstandingly rich fictional mix." This won't be the last you'll hear from us on the Bookers (you know how we love to speculate), so stay tuned for more Booker-themed shouts and murmurs. --Anne

• The Children's Book, by A.S. Byatt (winner for Possession)
• Summertime, by J.M. Coetzee (two-time winner: Life & Times of Michael K and Disgrace)
• The Quickening Maze, by Adam Foulds
• How to Paint a Dead Man, by Sarah Hall
• The Wilderness, by Samantha Harvey
• Me Cheeta, by James Lever
• Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel
• The Glass Room, by Simon Mawer
• Not Untrue & Not Unkind, by Ed O'Loughlin
• Heliopolis, by James Scudamore
• Brooklyn, by Colm Toibin
• Love and Summer, by William Trevor
• The Little Stranger, by Sarah Waters

Comments

[Mary B on July 29, 2009 at 08:33 AM]

Thank you, Anne. I laboriously went down the list yesterday, amazon.com, amazon.ca, amazon.co.uk, and ordered those immediately available in the USA. I wish I had waited for you!