Man Booker Prize Longlist announced

The Man Booker Prize longlist was announced this week and many litbloggers have posted commentary on the selections. Per the Man Booker site: "The longlist of 19 books was chosen from 112 entries; 95 were submitted for the prize and 17 were called in by the panel of judges."

I'm familiar with a lot of the titles, having seen them in the catalogues, but haven't read any of them yet. I have Peter Carey's Theft: a Love Story and Kate Grenville's The Secret River on their way to me for review. Nadine Gordimer's Get a Life and James Robertson's The Testament of Gideon Mack are already on my pile for review. So now I have to have a look at the rest of the titles and decide which ones I want to try and read prior to the short list announcement on September 14 and the winner being announced on October 10.

Peter Carey - Theft: A Love Story (Faber & Faber)

Kiran Desai - The Inheritance of Loss (Hamish Hamilton)

Robert Edric - Gathering the Water (Doubleday)

Nadine Gordimer - Get a Life (Bloomsbury)

Kate Grenville - The Secret River (Canongate)

M.J. Hyland - Carry Me Down (Canongate)

Howard Jacobson - Kalooki Nights (Jonathan Cape)

James Lasdun - Seven Lies (Jonathan Cape)

Mary Lawson - The Other Side of the Bridge (Chatto & Windus)

Jon McGregor - So Many Ways to Begin (Bloomsbury)

Hisham Matar - In the Country of Men (Viking)

Claire Messud - The Emperor’s Children (Picador)

David Mitchell - Black Swan Green (Sceptre)

Naeem Murr - The Perfect Man (William Heinemann)

Andrew O’Hagan - Be Near Me (Faber & Faber)

James Robertson - The Testament of Gideon Mack (Hamish Hamilton)

Edward St Aubyn - Mother’s Milk (Picador)

Barry Unsworth - The Ruby in her Navel (Hamish Hamilton)

Sarah Waters - The Night Watch (Virago)