booker longlist

Monica Ali for Brick Lane
Martin Amis for Yellow Dog
Margaret Atwood for Oryx and Crake

Carol Birch for Turn Again Home

Melvyn Bragg for Crossing the Lines

JM Coetzee for Elizabeth Costello

Julia Darling for The Taxi Driver's Daughter
Gerard Donovan for Schopenhauer's Telescope

Damon Galgut for The Good Doctor

Barbara Gowdy for The Romantic

Mark Haddon for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

Zo‘ Heller for Notes on a Scandal

Francis King for The Nick of Time

Shena Mackay for Heligoland

Clare Morrall for Astonishing Splashes Of Colour

John Murray for Jazz etc

Julie Myerson for Something Might Happen

Tim Parks for Judge Savage

Caryl Phillips for A Distant Shore

DCB Pierre for Vernon God Little

Jonathan Raban for Waxwings

Graham Swift for The Light of Day

Barbara Trapido for Frankie & Stankie
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well no one else posted this yet, and I've only listened to Oryx and Crake from Audible, and i think it would be better in text. it was good in audible, but audio is so much more passing to my mind than text, so i don't track audio as well over that many hours.