The longlist for the prestigious Man Booker Prize was announced today… and readers everywhere hang their heads sheepishly for spending the summer cramming Stieg Larsson.

Peter Carey: Parrot and Olivier 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 Jacob 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)

This article appears in July 23 • 2010.

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A graduate of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas, Kimberley has written about film, books, and pop culture for The Austin Chronicle since 2000. She was named Editor of the Chronicle in 2016; she previously served as the paper’s Managing Editor, Screens Editor, Books Editor, and proofreader. Her work has been awarded by the Association of Alternative Newsmedia for excellence in arts criticism, team reporting, and special section (Best of Austin). The Austin Alliance for Women...