Best of the Bookers

To celebrate the 40^th anniversary of the Booker Prize, a one-time prize has been created to honor the best of the past winners.

The list has been narrowed down to six. Voting ends mid-day July 8. (I regret to say that I have not read any of the finalists. I’m hoping to rectify that. Disgrace is in the mail to me as I type.)

The finalists are:

Pat Barker’s The Ghost Road

Peter Carey’s Oscar and Lucinda

JM Coetzee’s Disgrace

J G Farrell’s The Siege of Krishnapur

Nadine Gordimer’s The Conservationist

Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children

http://www.themanbookerprize.com/news/vote

A list of all Booker prize winners can be found at: http://www.themanbookerprize.com/prize/archive

Amazon’s take on it: The Most Bookery Booker: Down to Six,

http://www.omnivoracious.com/2008/05/the-most-booker.html