When a book wins an award and has that lovely seal added to it's cover, do you automatically add it to your list? Well how 'bout the nominees? They've got to be pretty good too, right? Well if you'll consider the nominees, you could have your book club reading list for the next year all set as the judges for the 2010 Man Booker Prize for fiction announced their longlist earlier this week.
(Picture a celeb in a tux saying) The nominees for the 2010 Man Booker Prize are:
Peter Carey: PARROT AND OLIVIER IN AMERICA
Emma Donoghue: ROOM
Helen Dunmore: THE BETRAYAL
Damon Galgut: IN A STRANGE ROOM
Howard Jacobson: THE FINKLER QUESTION
Andrea Levy: THE LONG SONG
Tom McCarthy: C
David Mitchell: THE THOUSAND AUTUMNS OF JACOB DE ZOET
Lisa Moore: FEBRUARY
Paul Murray: SKIPPY DIES
Rose Tremain: TRESPASS
Christos Tsiolkas: THE SLAP
Alan Warner: THE STARS IN THE BRIGHT SKY
Not all the titles listed here are available for sale in the US just yet, but most are and the rest are coming soon!
The 2010 shortlist will be announced on Tuesday September 7th and the winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2010 will be revealed on Tuesday October 12th, so stay tuned.
To read more about the books and the process, check out The Man Booker Prize website.
If you're really digging the RGG blog, you'll recognize a couple of the titles here from our earlier posts on the editor's picks for fall from the BookExpo America conference!
Ahhh lists of must-reads... so many books, so little time!
-- Dana Barrett, Contributing Editor
