As usual this shortlist is a mix of the famous and wonderfully obscure. I’ve read the first three and considered the fourth:
- Marilynne Robinson’s Home (one of my Best Books of 2009)
- Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland (excellent)
- The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery (excellent, see my review)
- The Believers by Zoë Heller
- The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker
- In Zodiac Light by Robert Edric
- Christoph Hein’s Settlement
- Ross Raisin’s God’s Own Country