And the Short List 2009 is out!!
Scottsboro
Ellen Feldman

The Wilderness
Samantha Harvey

The Invention of Everything Else
Samantha Hunt

Molly Fox's Birthday
Deirdre Madden

Home
Marilynne Robinson

Burnt Shadows
Kamila Shamsie

amazingly I'm actually in the middle of reading The Invention... For the first year I've read one long list before the short list was announced. Usually I jinx them!