Man Booker Prize Shortlist Announced

The shortlist for this year’s Man Booker Prize for Fiction was announced this week.

The six books on the shortlist are:

The Children’s Book by A. S. Byatt

Summertime by J. M. Coetzee

The Quickening Maze by Adam Foulds

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

The Glass Room by Simon Mawer

The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters

The Little Stranger is the only title on the list currently available  in the United States and in PPLS.  A. S. Byatt’s The Children’s Book and Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall are on order. PPLS also owns other books by all of the authors on the list except Adam Foulds.

Publication in the United States of the titles by Coetzee, Foulds and Mawer hasn’t yet been announced.

British critics consider this a very strong shortlist. The current favorite to win the prize  is considered to be Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall. The winner will be announced on October 6.

For more interesting information, visit the Man Booker Prize website at http://www.themanbookerprize.com/prize/thisyear/shortlist.