Best of the Booker Prize Goes Public, Vote!

The short list was announced today for the Best of the Booker Prize Award to mark the 40th anniversary of the Booker Prize. The Man Booker Prize for Fiction, also known in short as the Booker Prize, is the literary prize awarded each year for authors of novels from England, the Commonweath, or Ireland written in English. It is considered one of the important literary awards of the year.

This year the Booker vote goes public as readers world-wide can cast a vote for the six novels on the short list, Pat Barker's The Ghost Road; Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda; J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace; JG Farrell's The Seige of Kishnapur; Nadine Gordimer's The Conservationist; and Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children.

This is great list of novels and its interesting that the Booker Prize is allowing public votes. What better way than this to get the public involved and turning its attention to some of the best novels written in the last 40 years.