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.
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