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)