Man-Booker Long List Announced

The Man-Booker prize is open to U.K., Commonwealth, and Irish authors who've published a work of fiction in the U.K. According to the Man Booker Web site, "Every year the Man Booker Prize winner is guaranteed a huge increase in sales, firstly in hardback and then in paperback."

Previous years' winners include:
(2009) Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall. First ed: $50+ (unsigned), $100ish (signed).
(2008) Aravind Adiga, White Tiger. First UK ed: $50+ (unsigned), $200+ (signed)
(2002) Yann Martel, Life of Pi. First U.S. ed: $50+ (unsigned), up to $850 (signed); Canadian signed firsts are fetching up to $2,000.
(2000) Margaret Atwood, Blind Assassin. First ed: $15+ (unsigned), up to $300 (signed)




This year, 138 books were reviewed and the following 13 made the cut for the Long List:
  1. Peter Carey Parrot and Olivier in America (Faber and Faber)*
  2. Emma Donoghue Room (Pan MacMillan - Picador)*
  3. Helen Dunmore The Betrayal (Penguin - Fig Tree)*
  4. Damon Galgut In a Strange Room (Grove Atlantic - Atlantic Books)*
  5. Howard Jacobson The Finkler Question (Bloomsbury)
  6. Andrea Levy The Long Song (Headline Publishing Group - Headline Review)*
  7. Tom McCarthy C (Random House - Jonathan Cape)*
  8. David Mitchell The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet  (Hodder & Stoughton - Sceptre)*
  9. Lisa Moore February (Random House - Chatto & Windus)
  10. Paul Murray Skippy Dies (Penguin - Hamish Hamilton)*
  11. Rose Tremain Trespass (Random House - Chatto & Windus)*
  12. Christos Tsiolkas The Slap (Grove Atlantic - Tuskar Rock)
  13. Alan Warner The Stars in the Bright Sky (Random House - Jonathan Cape)
According to the Web site, "[t]he 2010 shortlist will be announced on Tuesday 7 September at a press conference at Man Group's London headquarters. The winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2010 will be revealed on Tuesday 12 October."
*= books whose signed copies are selling for $50+; items in bold are already very collectible.

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