The Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2010 Longlist

This year’s 13-author strong “Man Booker Dozen” longlist was just announced, and while it doesn’t include many new names (in fact, Peter Carey has already won the Booker — twice) and there were a few notable snubs (Martin Amis, Ian McEwan), it does include several books that are recent Flavorpill favorites — most notably David Mitchell’s The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet and Emma Donoghue’s Room. Click through to view the final list, and leave comment if you’ve got a hunch on who will win the £50,000 literary prize.

Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2010 Longlist
Peter Carey – Parrot and Olivier in America (Faber and Faber)
Emma Donoghue – Room (Pan MacMillan – Picador)
Helen Dunmore – The Betrayal (Penguin – Fig Tree)
Damon Galgut – In a Strange Room (Grove Atlantic – Atlantic Books)
Howard Jacobson – The Finkler Question (Bloomsbury)
Andrea Levy – The Long Song (Headline Publishing Group – Headline Review)
Tom McCarthy – C (Random House – Jonathan Cape)
David Mitchell – The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet (Hodder & Stoughton – Sceptre)
Lisa Moore – February (Random House – Chatto & Windus)
Paul Murray – Skippy Dies (Penguin – Hamish Hamilton)
Rose Tremain – Trespass (Random House – Chatto & Windus)
Christos Tsiolkas – The Slap (Grove Atlantic – Tuskar Rock)
Alan Warner – The Stars in the Bright Sky (Random House – Jonathan Cape)

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The Omnivore has rounded up the reviews for all the longlisted books, bringing you a critical digest of quotes from UK and US newspapers and literary journals. Read our roundups here: http://blog.theomnivore.co.uk/2010/07/27/man-booker-prize-2010-longlist-reviews/

The new Mitchell is dry. Room all the way.

if Mitchell doesn't win in October, I will eat my hat.

I really hope David Mitchell gets it. Thousand Autumns is the best book I've read in years

Room is the best of that list by far. It's a stunning piece of work, and it completely tore me apart.