I've totally missed all the fuss about the Booker Prize this year (unless, perhaps, there hasn't been any). I was only aware of one book that seemed to be being touted as a likely winner (Joseph O'Neill's Netherland) and that one's not even on the shortlist.
The titles of the final six books were released today and the choice has been described as "unpredictable", mainly, I think, because Salman Rushdie's latest wasn't on it. Read the shortlist over the cut.
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
The Clothes on Their Backs by Linda Grant
The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher
A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz
Have you read any of them? Not only have I not read any, I've only heard of one (the Linda Grant). I'm really slacking...
[via The Bookseller]
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