As reported everywhere, they've now announced the thirteen-title-strong longlist for this year's Man Booker Prize.
They were selected from 156 submissions -- though, alas, the Man Booker folk don't reveal which titles were actually in the running.
(Publishers are limited as to how many titles they can submit, a complex formula determining how many each is allowed to submit, so it is likely prominent and promising titles were never even considered for the prize -- but they won't tell us which ones.
People should find this more disturbing than they seem to (most of you don't seem to mind at all).)
The Telegraph has the main points covered in various articles: American dominance of Man Booker Prize longlist 'confirms worst fears' and Men and women take equal share in the Man Booker Prize longlist pretty much sum things up.
Prominent authors whose books missed the cut (but, after all, may not have even been submitted ....) include those by Kazuo Ishiguro, Jonathan Franzen, Salman Rushdie, and Pat Barker.
Unsurprisingly, none of the longlisted titles are under review at the complete review -- sorry.
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