With the unveiling of the Booker Prize longlist, the 2010 literary Prize season is officially underway. As is typically the case, the list offers a mix of exciting new names, relative unknowns and beloved standbys. The instant favorites to win for most readers will be David Mitchell, Peter Carey, and, though he is something of a newly minted literary superstar, Tom McCarthy. Several of the books named appeared on our “most anticipated” lists for the first and second halves of 2010.
All the Booker Prize longlisters are below (with excerpts where available):
- Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey (excerpt)
- Room by Emma Donoghue (excerpt)
- The Betrayal by Helen Dunmore (excerpt)
- In a Strange Room by Damon Galgut (excerpt)
- The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
- The Long Song by Andrea Levy (excerpt)
- C by Tom McCarthy
- The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell (excerpt)
- February by Lisa Moore (excerpt)
- Skippy Dies by Paul Murray (excerpt)
- Trespass by Rose Tremain (excerpt [scroll down])
- The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas (excerpt)
- The Stars in the Bright Sky by Alan Warner
