23 novels were announced for this year's Booker Prize who's winner will be announced on October 14th in London.

Monica Ali for Brick Lane Martin Amis for Yellow Dog Margaret Atwood for Oryx and Crake Carol Birch for Turn Again Home Melvyn Bragg for Crossing the Lines JM Coetzee for Elizabeth Costello Julia Darling for The Taxi Driver's Daughter Gerard Donovan for Schopenhauer's Telescope Damon Galgut for The Good Doctor Barbara Gowdy for The Romantic Mark Haddon for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Zoë Heller for Notes on a Scandal Francis King for The Nick of Time Shena Mackay for Heligoland Clare Morrall for Astonishing Splashes Of Colour John Murray for Jazz etc Julie Myerson for Something Might Happen Tim Parks for Judge Savage Caryl Phillips for A Distant Shore DCB Pierre for Vernon God Little Jonathan Raban for Waxwings Graham Swift for The Light of Day Barbara Trapido for Frankie & Stankie

More on the novels and their authors can be found on the official Booker Prize website.

Last year's winner was the later bestseller "The Life of Pi" by Yann Martel (Kevin Holtsberry did a very enlightening review on the novel here at blogcritics) which told the story of the Indian boy Pi Patel who survives for over 200 days on the open pacific ocean with a grown tiger in his lifeboat.