The judges for the 2008 Man Booker Prize for Fiction have announced the longlist for this year's prize. The longlist of 13 books, often referred to as the 'Man Booker Dozen', was chosen from 112 entries; 103 were submitted for the prize and nine were called in by the judges.The titles are:
Aravind Adiga: The White Tiger
Gaynor Arnold: Girl in a Blue Dress
Sebastian Barry: The Secret Scripture
John Berger: From A to X
Michelle de Kretser: The Lost Dog
Amitav Ghosh: Sea of Poppies
Linda Grant: The Clothes on Their Backs
Mohammed Hanif: A Case of Exploding Mangoes
Philip Hensher: The Northern Clemency
Joseph O'Neill: Netherland
Salman Rushdie: The Enchantress of Florence
Tom Rob Smith: Child 44
Steve Toltz: A Fraction of the Whole
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