Here's the list of 13, culled from 138 entries. The shortlist will be announced Sept. 6.
Julian Barnes The Sense of an Ending (Jonathan Cape - Random House)
Sebastian Barry On Canaan's Side (Faber)
Carol Birch Jamrach's Menagerie (Canongate Books)
Patrick deWitt The Sisters Brothers (Granta)
Esi Edugyan Half Blood Blues (Serpent's Tail - Profile)
Yvvette Edwards A Cupboard Full of Coats (Oneworld)
Alan Hollinghurst The Stranger's Child (Picador - Pan Macmillan)
Stephen Kelman Pigeon English (Bloomsbury)
Patrick McGuinness The Last Hundred Days(Seren Books)
A.D. Miller Snowdrops (Atlantic)
Alison Pick Far to Go (Headline Review)
Jane Rogers The Testament of Jessie Lamb (Sandstone Press)
D.J. Taylor Derby Day (Chatto & Windus - Random House)
The Man Booker Prize is awarded annually for the best novel published by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, Ireland, or Zimbabwe.
Not all of these books have been published in the United States. Barry's "On Canaan's Side," for instance, will be published here in September; Alan Hollinghurst's "The Stranger's Child," pubs here in October.
