The Man Booker Prize has released its longlist for 2008:
- The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
- Girl in a Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold
- The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
- From A to X by John Berger
- The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser
- Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
- The Clothes on Their Backs by Linda Grant
- A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif
- The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher
- Netherland by Joseph O’Neill
- The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
- Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
- A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz
No Canadians this year. And word has it that Rushdie has ordered vanity plates that read “MN BKR MN.”