The Best of the Bookers Shortlist

THE SIX SHORTLISTED BOOKS, chosen from the list of 41 Booker Prize and Man Booker Prize winners are:

1. The Ghost Road (1995, Viking; Penguin paperback) / Pat Barker
2. Oscar and Lucinda (1988, Faber & Faber; Faber paperback) / Peter Carey
3. Disgrace (1999, Secker & Warburg; Vintage paperback) / J.M. Coetzee
4. The Siege of Krishnapur (1973, Weidenfeld & Nicolson; Phoenix paperback) / J.G. Farrell
5. The Conservationist (1974, Jonathan Cape; Bloomsbury paperback) / Nadine Gordimer
6. Midnight’s Children (1981, Jonathan Cape; Vintage paperback) / Salman Rushdie

My personal favourites are J.G. Farrell’s The Siege of Krishnapur and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children.

The winner will be announced as part of the London Literature Festival on July 10, 2008