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The 2008 Award longlist

The books are listed by author's surname

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AUTHOR
 
TITLE
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie   Half of a Yellow Sun
José Eduardo Agualusa   The Book of Chameleons
Naomi Alderman   Disobedience
Vassilis Alexakis   Foreign Words
Monica Ali   Alentejo Blue
Isabel Allende   Inés of my Soul
Martin Amis   House of Meetings
Marie Arana   Cellophane
Kate Atkinson   One Good Turn
Margaret Atwood   Moral Disorder
Paul Auster   Travels in the Scriptorium
     
Anita Rau Badami   Can you Hear the Nightbird Call?
Howard Bahr   The Judas Field
Alessandro Baricco   An Iliad
Emily Barton   Brookland
Peter Behrens   The Law of Dreams
Tahar Ben Jelloun   The Last Friend
Stefano Benni  
Margherita Dolce Vita
Harry Bingham  
The Lieutenant's Lover
Juan Bonilla  
The Nubian Prince
William Boyd   Restless
John Boyne   The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Kevin Brockmeier   TThe Brief History of the Dead
     
Anthony Capella   The Wedding Officer
Peter Carey   Theft: A love story
Javier Cercas   The Speed of Light
Vikram Chandra   Sacred Games
Clifford Chase   Winkie
Upamanyu Chatterjee   Weight Loss
Yvette Christianse   Unconfessed
Harlan Coban   Promise Me
Trevor Cole   The Fearsome Particles
Michael Collins   The Secret Life of E. Robert Pendleton
Michael Cox   The Meaning of Night
Alan Cumyn   The Famished Lover
   
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Stig Dalager   Journey in Blue
Kathryn Davis   The Thin Place
Debra Dean   The Madonnas of Leningrad
Kiran Desai   The Inheritance of Loss
Ivan Doig  
The Whistling Season
     
Jennifer Egan   The Keep
Dave Eggers   What is the What
Per Olov Enquist   The Book about Blanche and Marie / The Story of Blance and Marie
Laura Esquival   Malinche
     
Richard Flanagan   The Unknown Terrorist
Richard Ford   The Lay of the Land
Animatta Forna   Ancestor Stones
     
Madeleine Gagnon   My Name is Bosnia
Pamela Gien   The Syringa Tree
Jennifer Gilmore  
Golden Country
Yasmine Gooneratne   The Sweet and Simple Kind
Neil Griffiths   Saving Caravaggio
Sara Gruen   Water for Elephants
Faïza Guène   Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow / Just Like Tomorrow
Soecy Gummels   Touched by Love
   
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Mark Haddon   A Spot of Bother
Rawi Hage   De Niro's Game
Sophie Hannah  
Little Face
Robert Harris  
Imperium
Kenneth J. Harvey   Inside
Robert Hellenga   Philosophy Made Simple
     
Alison Jameson  

This man and me

Matti Joensuu   The Priest of Evil
Marie-Elena John   Unburnable
Shaun Johnson   The Native Commissioner
Stephanie Johnson   John Tomb's Head
Evan Jones   Alonso and the Drug Baron
Gail Jones  
Dreams of Speaking
Lloyd Jones  
Mr Pip
Christian Jungersen  
The Exception
     
Laura Kalpakian   American Cookery
Sayed Kashua   Let it be Morning
Daniel Kehlmann   Measuring the World
Yasmina Khadra   The Attack
Claire Kilroy   Tenderwire
Verlyn Klinkenborg   Timothy, or, notes of an Abject Reptile
Dorothy Koomson   My Best Friend's Girl
     
Alessandra Lavagnino   The Librarians of Alexandra
Simone Lazaroo   The Travel Writer
David Long   The Inhabited World
Pearl Luke  
Madame Zee
   
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Joy Mahabir  
Jouvert
Andrei Makine   The Woman Who Waited
Gautam Malkani   Londonstani
Hisham Matar   In the Country of Men
Patrick McCabe  
Winterwood
Colum McCann   Zoli
Cormac McCarthy   The Road
Alice McDermott   After This
Andrew McGahan   Underground
Jon McGregor   So Many Ways To Begin
Jay McInerney   The Good Life
Ami McKay   The Birth House
Eva Menasse   Vienna
Claire Messud   The Emperor's Children
David Mitchell   Black Swan Green
Clare Morrall   Natural Flights of the Human Mind
Thomas Mullen   The Last Town On Earth

Meg Mullins

  The Rug Merchant
Naeem Murr   The Perfect Man
Julie Myerson  
The Story of You
   
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Peter Nadas   Own Death
Amelie Nothomb  
The Life of Hunger
     
Andrew O'Connor   Tuvalu
Maggie O'Farrell  
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
Heather O'Neill  
Lullabies for Little Criminals
     
Tim Parks   Cleaver
Matthew Pearl   The Poe Shadow
Stef Penney   The Tenderness of Wolves
Rita Perera   Coalescing with Omega
Marisha Pessl   Special Topics in Calamity Physics
Richard Powers   The Echo Maker
Thomas Pynchon   Against the Day
     
David Adams Richards   The Friends of Meager Fortune
James Robertson   The Testament of Gideon Mack
Deborah Robertson   Careless
Philip Roth   Everyman
Geoff Ryman   The King's Last Song
   
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Katherine Scholes   The Stone Angel
Diane Setterfield   The Thirteenth Tale
Paul Shannon  
Davey Darling
Gary Shteyngart   Absurdistan
Anja Sicking   The Silent Sin
Alan Spence   The Pure Land
C.K. Stead   My Name Was Judas
     
Anne Tyler   Digging to America
     
John Updike   Terrorist
     
Marlene van Niekerk   Agaat
     
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o   Wizard of the Crow
Alan Warner   The Worms Can Carry Me To Heaven
Sarah Waters   The Night Watch
Katherine Weber   Triangle
Colson Whitehead   Apex Hides The Hurt
Damien Wilkins   The Fainter
Alexis Wright   Carpentaria
     
Geling Yan   The Uninvited
Nadezhda Zaharieva   She And The Three Men
   
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