- To Rise Again at a Decent Hour, Joshua Ferris (Viking)
- The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan (Chatto & Windus)
- We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler (Serpent's Tail)
- The Blazing World, Siri Hustvedt (Sceptre)
- J, Howard Jacobson (Jonathan Cape)
- The Wake, Paul Kingsnorth (Unbound)
- The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell (Sceptre)
- The Lives of Others, Neel Mukherjee (Chatto & Windus)
- Us, David Nicholls (Hodder & Stoughton)
- The Dog, Joseph O'Neill (Fourth Estate)
- Orfeo, Richard Powers (Atlantic Books)
- How to be Both, Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton)
- History of the Rain, Niall Williams (Bloomsbury)
More information at the Man Booker Website