Tuesday 27 July 2010

For what it's worth

My Booker Longlist predictions

1. Thousand Autumns – David Mitchell
2. C – Tom McCarthy
3. Skippy Dies – Paul Murray
4. The Long Song – Andrea Levy
5. The Canal – Lee Rourke
6. Nourishment – Gerard Woodward
7. Trespass – Rose Tremain
8. Solar – Ian McEwan
9. Even the Dogs – Jon McGregor
10. And this is True – Emily Mackie
11. The Finkler Question – Howard Jacobson
12. Room – Emma Donague
13. The Slap – Christos Tsiolkas

4 comments:

  1. No DBC Pierre? No Peter Carey? O'Hagan?
    Yours,
    Dissin Trested
    Bloomsbury

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  2. I don't think DBC Pierre's new novel is quite good enough. Not when up against Mitchell or Tsiolkas' efforts.

    Good list. Not long now!

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  3. Actual list

    Peter Carey Parrot and Oliver in America (Faber and Faber)

    Emma Donoghue Room (Pan MacMillan - Picador)

    Helen Dunmore The Betrayal (Penguin - Fig Tree)

    Damon Galgut In a Strange Room (Grove Atlantic - Atlantic Books)

    Howard Jacobson The Finkler Question (Bloomsbury)

    Andrea Levy The Long Song
    (Headline Publishing Group - Headline Review)

    Tom McCarthy C (Random House - Jonathan Cape)

    David Mitchell The Thousand Autumns of Zacob de Zoet (Hodder & Stoughton - Sceptre)

    Lisa Moore February (Random House - Chatto & Windus)

    Paul Murray Skippy Dies (Penguin - Hamish Hamilton)

    Rose Tremain Trespass (Random House - Chatto & Windus)

    Christos Tsiolkas The Slap (Grove Atlantic - Tuskar Rock)

    Alan Warner The Stars in the Bright Sky
    (Random House - Jonathan Cape)

    I make that eight from 13 - not bad at all...

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  4. Only read one of these books :(
    McEwan's SOLAR..
    Reviewed David Mitchell Thousand Autumns excerpt in my blog though
    http://the-excerpt-reader.blogspot.com/2010/07/excerpt-david-mitchells-thousand.html
    And THE SLAP is waiting for me to free my hands of Adam Haslett's UNION ATLANTIC..
    So long...

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