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September 10, 2008

Man Booker shortlist

Now that summer is over and it's time to plunge into some more serious reading, check out the Man Booker Prize's shortlist, which was announced yesterday. It skipped over previous winners John Berger and Salman Rushdie for several newish authors, including a pair of first-time novelists. Here are stories from The Guardian and the New York Times.

The list: Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger; Sebastian Barry's The Secret Scripture; Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies; Linda Grant's The Clothes on Their Backs; Philip Hensher's The Northern Clemency; and Steve Toltz's A Fraction of the Whole.

Adiga and Toltz are first-time novelists, and Barry is the only person on the list to have been previously shortlisted (in 2005).

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While she always preferred The Hardy Boys to Nancy Drew, Nancy Knight grew up reading nearly everything she could get her hands on, including a probably unhealthy amount of R.L. Stine and Christopher Pike, with the obligatory Jane Austen thrown in. She'll still read just about anything you put in front of her, especially the funny or weird. She lives in the city with her books, cat and drum set.

Dave Rosenthal came to The Baltimore Sun as a business reporter in 1987 and now is an assistant managing editor and Sunday editor. He reads a wide range of books (but never as many as he'd like), usually alternating between non-fiction and fiction. Some all-time favorites: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole; Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery; and anything by Calvin Trillin or John McPhee. He belongs to a book club with a Jewish theme.