The Booker short list has been announced:

The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
Mother's Milk by Edward St. Aubyn
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
The Secret River by Kate Grenville
Carry Me Down by M.J. Hyland
In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar

Being the kind of gal I am, I've already obtained one of these books and am in the process of gathering the others.