The 2012 Man Booker long list was announced today. Here is what the judges thought were the best books of the past year;
- The Yips by Nicola Barker (Fourth Estate)
- The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman (Sceptre)
- Philida by André Brink (Harvill Secker)
- The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng (Myrmidon Books)
- Skios by Michael Frayn (Faber & Faber)
- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce (Doubleday)
- Swimming Home by Deborah Levy (And Other Stories)
- Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel (Fourth Estate)
- The Lighthouse by Alison Moore (Salt)
- Umbrella by Will Self (Bloomsbury)
- Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil (Faber & Faber)
- Communion Town by Sam Thompson (Fourth Estate)
How many of the books have you read so far? I haven’t read any of them.
Precisely none, and to be honest I hadn’t even heard of some of these authors before today!
I hadn’t heard of some of these books but some of them sound really good