Vote for the Best of the Booker

© Elizabeth Gregory

May 17, 2008

Have your say as the final six shortlisted for this prestigious award are revealed.


The winner of The Best of Booker, a prize marking the 40th birthday of the Man Booker Prize, will be announced on July 10th, and will be chosen by the reading public from a list of six specially selected from all previous winners. The final six, as chosen by Victoria Glendinning, Mariella Frostrup and John Mullan are:

Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children (1981)

JM Coetzee's Disgrace (1999)

JG Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur (1973)

Nadine Gordimer's The Conservationist (1974)

Pat Barker's The Ghost Road (1995)

Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda (1988)

Salman Rushdie is the favourite to win, having already won The Booker of Bookers which marked the prize's 25th anniversary. You have until July 8th to vote for your favourite, at the Man Booker website.


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