The Man Booker Prize 2011 longlist was announced last Tuesday 26th of July 2011.
A total of 138 books were under consideration for the long list which was condensed down to the following 13.
Julian Barnes The Sense of an Ending (Jonathan Cape - Random House)
Sebastian Barry On Canaan's Side (Faber)
Carol Birch Jamrach's Menagerie (Canongate Books)
Patrick deWitt The Sisters Brothers (Granta)
Esi Edugyan Half Blood Blues (Serpent's Tail)
Yvvette Edwards A Cupboard Full of Coats (Oneworld)
Alan Hollinghurst The Stranger's Child (Picador - Pan Macmillan) Stephen Kelman Pigeon English (Bloomsbury)
Patrick McGuinness The Last Hundred Days (Seren Books)
A.D. Miller Snowdrops (Atlantic)
Alison Pick Far to Go (Headline Review)
Jane Rogers The Testament of Jessie Lamb (Sandstone Press)
D.J. Taylor Derby Day (Chatto & Windus - Random House)
Sebastian Barry On Canaan's Side (Faber)
Carol Birch Jamrach's Menagerie (Canongate Books)
Patrick deWitt The Sisters Brothers (Granta)
Esi Edugyan Half Blood Blues (Serpent's Tail)
Yvvette Edwards A Cupboard Full of Coats (Oneworld)
Alan Hollinghurst The Stranger's Child (Picador - Pan Macmillan) Stephen Kelman Pigeon English (Bloomsbury)
Patrick McGuinness The Last Hundred Days (Seren Books)
A.D. Miller Snowdrops (Atlantic)
Alison Pick Far to Go (Headline Review)
Jane Rogers The Testament of Jessie Lamb (Sandstone Press)
D.J. Taylor Derby Day (Chatto & Windus - Random House)
The shortlist of six authors will be announced on Tuesday 6 September.
The winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction will be announced on Tuesday 18 October.
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I have been looking forward to reading Sebastian Barry On Canaan's Side for a while now and I’m glad to see it make the longlist. This is Barry’s third time getting a nomination, having made the shortlist twice before.
Have you read any of the books listed or any of the autors other works? What do you think of them.
I haven't read any of the 13 listed books which is a bit odd for me cos normally I've read at least one or two. I might start with the Sebastian Barry one and go from from there.
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