Quarantine by Jim Crace

Nominated by Birmingham City Libraries, England;Cleveland Public Library, Ohio, U.S.A.; State Library of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia and Wellington City Council, New Zealand.

Underworld by Don DeLillo

Nominated by Denver Public Library, Colorado, U.S.A.; LeRoy Collins Leon County Public Library, Tallahassee, Florida, U.S.A; New York Public Library, U.S.A; San Jose Public Library, California, U.S.A and Tucson-Pima Public Library, Arizona, U.S.A

The Ordinary Seaman by Francisco Goldman

Nominated by Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County, Ohio, U.S.A

Enduring Love by Ian McEwan

Nominated by Cape Town City Libraries, South Africa and Central Johannesburg Library, South Africa

Ingenious Pain by Andrew Miller

Nominated by Deichmanske Bibliothek, Oslo, Norway; State Library of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia and Bibliotheque Municipale de Tours, France

The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami Translated from the Japanese by Jay Rubin

Nominated by Hartford Public Library, Connecticut, U.S.A

The Puttermesser Papers by Cynthia Ozick

Nominated by San Jose Public Library, California, U.S.A

The Reader by Bernard Schlink Translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway

Nominated by Birmingham City Libraries, England; Stadtbuchereien Frankfurt, Germany; Stadtbuchereien Hannover, Germany, Houston Public Library, Texas, U.S.A; Bibliotheque Municipale, Lyon, France and State Library of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia