2004 Man Booker Prize Shortlist

The shortlist for this year's Man Booker Prize was announced on Tuesday September 21st at the Man Group's London office.  The chair of the judges, MP Chris Smith, said:

"This is an exceptionally strong shortlist.  All of these books would stand contention with the Booker winners over the years.  This list contains a number of well-established authors as well as two writers for whom this is only their second novel.

"If there is one essential characteristic of all these books, it's the quality of their writing, their use of words and deployment of imagery.  In a strong field these novels have stood out as being truly remarkable."

Here are the six novels that were fortunate enough to make the cut.

2004 Man Booker Prize Shortlist
Book Cover	Title and Author	Publisher
	Bitter Fruit by Achmat Dangor   Information and Review	Atlantic Books
	The Electric Michelangelo by Sarah Hall   Information and Review	Faber & Faber
	The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst   Information and Review	Picador
	Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell   Information and Review	Sceptre
	The Master by Colm Toibin   Information and Review	Picador
	I'll Go to Bed at Noon by Gerard Woodward   Information and Review	Chatto & Windus

The TurboBookSnob predicted 3 out of 6 books on this year's shortlist - The Line of Beauty, Cloud Atlas, and
The Master. She is looking forward to reading the other three books; unfortunately, her order from the UK was delayed this year so she was unable to read and review all of the books on the longlist before making her predictions.

Check out the TurboBookSnob's 2004 Shortlist Predictions.