Man Booker Prize 2014 longlist

       They've announced the thirteen-title strong longlist for the 2014 Man Booker Prize -- open to UK-published novels by writers from anywhere (previously: only from the UK, Commonwealth, plus Zimbabwe and the Republic of Ireland) -- i.e. for the first time also by American writers.
       The longlisted titles are:

• The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt
• The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
• The Dog by Joseph O'Neill
• History of the Rain by Niall Williams
• How to be Both by Ali Smith
• J by Howard Jacobson
• The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee
• The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
• Orfeo by Richard Powers
• To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris
• Us by David Nicholls
• The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth
• We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler