Awards: Man Booker Prize Nominees

The Man Booker Prize nominees for 2008 have been announced. Here's the list:

The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga
The Secret Scripture, by Sebastian Barry
Sea of Poppies, by Amitav Ghosh
The Clothes on Their Backs, by Linda Grant
The Northern Clemency, by Philip Hensher
A Fraction of the Whole, by Steve Toltz

Looks like I have a lot of reading to do; I haven't read any of these yet!

The Man Booker Prize is awarded to a book written in English by an author from Great Britain, the Commonwealth, or the Republic of Ireland. The Prize is celebrating its 40th Anniversary this year.