Bettors' Favorite Crace Leads Booker Shortlist

From Publishers Lunch

UK bettors' favorite Jim Crace's HARVEST is one of six titles shortlisted for the Booker prize, leading a conventional list drawn from big publishers. Statistically, the list features 4 women; one 3-time nominee (Toibin); 2 titles not yet published in the US (Lahiri's book publishes September 24; Catton's is scheduled for October 15); 2 Canadians (Catton and Ozeki); and 1 author under 30 (Catton).

We Need New Names, Noviolet Bulawayo (Chatto/Little, Brown)

The Luminaries, Eleanor Catton (Granta/Little, Brown)
Harvest, Jim Crace (Picador/Nan A. Talese)
The Lowland, Jhumpa Lahiri (Bloomsbury/Knopf)
A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki (Canongate/Viking)
The Testament of Mary, Colm Toibin (Penguin UK/Scribner)

It also includes 2 books -- by Bulawayo and Ozeki -- featured in our Spring/Summer Buzz Books sampler earlier this year. Check out excerpts from some of the biggest Fall/Winter Buzz Books in our latest free ebook.)