The New Dirty Dozen

And here they are, the short list, the last men and women standing, the 2010 Man Booker Dozen... (Is two-time winner Peter Kelley Gang Carey just a mandatory nominee by now?)  Apparently they went with a baker's dozen of 13 books.  They'll announce the winner on September 7.  Do you think it's an honor just to be nominated? 

1. "Parrot and Olivier in America" by Peter Carey
2. "Room" by Emma Donoghue (coming in September)
3. "The Betrayal" by Helen Dunmore (not yet available)
4. "In a Strange Room" by Damon Galgut
5. "The Finkler Question" by Howard Jacobson (not yet available) 
6. "The Long Song" by Andrea Levy
7. "C" by Tom McCarthy (coming in September)
8. "The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet " by David Mitchell (LA Times review)
9. "February" by Lisa Moore
10. "Skippy Dies" by Paul Murray (coming in August)
11. "Trespass" by Rose Tremain (coming in October)
12. "The Slap" by Christos Tsiolkas
13. "The Stars in the Bright Sky" by Alan Warner