Man Booker Prize Longlist announced.
Aw, Tash
Banville, John
Barnes, Julian
A Long Long Way
Coetzee, J.M.
Cusk, Rachel
Ishiguro, Kazuo
Jacobson, Dan
Lewycka, Marina
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
Mantel, Hilary
McEwan, Ian
Meek, James
Rushdie, Salman
Smith, Ali
Smith, Zadie
Thompson, Harry
Wall, William
I've read exactly one of these books, and it was so outstanding that a patron brought it back yesterday (I had recommended it to her last week) and I was so happy that she liked it that I jumped up and down. In the library. At the circulation desk. I jumped up and down. It's a perfect book.
I've been meaning to read the McEwan, the Mantel, the Lewycka and the Barnes. But I haven't yet. In the Fold has a really good cover. I'll have to add it to the TBR list.
Have I mentioned that the fabulous Cloud Atlas was shortlisted for the Booker last year? Yet another reason to read it.