The longlist for the 2010 award was announced today, consisting of 156 books. Today's Guardian has an article about the announcement, and the entire longlist, which I've copied and pasted below:

Aravind Adiga heads Impac Dublin prize longlist

Nathalie Abi-Ezzi A Girl Made of Dust

Aravind Adiga The White Tiger

Peter Adolphsen Machine

José Eduardo Agualusa My Father's Wives

Alaa Al Aswany Chicago

Rabih Alameddine The Hakawati / Storyteller

Musharraf Ali Farooqi The Story of a Widow

Nadeem Aslam The Wasted Vigil

Kate Atkinson When Will There Be Good News?

Stéphane Audeguy The Only Son

Paul Auster Man in the Dark

Gerbrand Bakker The Twin

Chitra Banerjee The Palace of Illusions

Muriel Barbery The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Joan Barfoot Exit Lines

Kim Barnes A Country Called Home

Sebastian Barry The Secret Scripture

Louis Bayard The Black Tower

David Benioff City of Thieves

Charles Bock Beautiful Children

CJ Box Blood Trail

Joseph Boyden Through Black Spruce

Stefan Brijs The Angel Maker translated by Hester Velmans

Geraldine Brooks People of the Book

Shannon Burke Black Flies

Ian Buruma The China Lover

Andrea Camilleri The Paper Moon

Ethan Canin America, America

Martin Caparrós Valfierno: the man who stole the Mona Lisa

Peter Carey His Illegal Self

Eleanor Catton The Rehearsal

Dai'na Chaviano The Island of Eternal Love

Chris Cleave The Other Hand / Little Bee

Matthew Condon The Trout Opera

Maurice G Dantec Cosmos Incorporated

Andrew Davidson The Gargoyle

Luke Davies God of Speed

Kate de Goldi The 10pm Question

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni The Palace of Illusions

José Rodrigues dos Santos Codex 632: The Secret Identity of Christopher Columbus

Gyorgy Dragoman The White King

Slavenka Drakulic Frida's Bed

Bernard du Boucheron The Voyage of the Short Serpent

Robert Edric In Zodiac Light

Marian Endicott Good to a Fault

Leif Enger So Brave, Young and Handsome

Louise Erdrich The Plague of Doves

Bernardine Evaristo Blonde Roots

Elena Ferrante The Lost Daughter

Laura Fish Strange Music

Richard Flanagan Wanting

Jeffrey Ford The Shadow Year

Annica Foxcroft There Are Ants in My Sugar

Steven Galloway The Cellist of Sarajevo

Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza Blackout

Helen Garner The Spare Room

Amitav Ghosh Sea of Poppies

Shehani Gomes Learning to Fly

Andrew Sean Greer The Story of a Marriage

Arnon Grunberg The Jewish Messiah

Manu Gunasena The Prince

Rawi Hage Cockroach

Kenneth J Harvey Blackstrap Hawco

Milton Hatoum Ashes of the Amazon

Samuel Hazo This Part of the World

Christoph Hein Settlement

Zoe Heller The Believers

Aleksander Hemon The Lazarus Project

Philip Hensher The Northern Clemency

Linda Hogan People of the Whale

Nicholas Hogg Show Me The Sky

Samantha Hunt The Invention of Everything Else

Siri Hustvedt The Sorrows of an American

Arnaldur Indridson Artic Chill

Rowley Jeffrey Gems in the Cracks

Ma Jian Beijing Coma

Stephanie Johnson Swimmer's Rope

Sadie Jones The Outcast

Hillary Jordan Mudbound

Hedi Kaddour Waltenberg

James Kelman Kieron Smith, Boy

Karl Ove Knausgard A Time To Every Purpose Under Heaven

James Howard Kunstler World Made By Hand

Hanif Kureishi Something To Tell You

Rachel Kushner Telex from Cuba

Feri Lainscek Murisa translated by Erica Johnson Debelsak

Charles Lambert Little Monsters

Patrick Lane Red Dog, Red Dog

Mandla Langa The Lost Colours of the Chameleon

Ursula LeGuin Lavinia

Dennis Lehane The Given Day

Lauren Liebenberg The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam

Deirdre Madden Molly Fox's Birthday

Andrei Makine Human Love

Adam Mansback The End of the Jews

Adam Mars-Jones Pilcrow

Richard Mason The Lighted Rooms

James Meek We Are Now Beginning Our Descent

Kei Miller The Same Earth

Donna Milner After River

Simon Sebag Montefiore Sashenka

Clare Morrall The Language of Others

Toni Morrison A Mercy

Kate Morton The Forgotten Garden

Walter Mosley Diablerie

Jay Neugeboren 1940

Salvatore Niffoi The Legend of Redenta Tiria

HR Ole Kulet Blossoms of the Savannah

Linda Olsson Sonata for Miriam

Stewart O'Nan Songs for the Missing

Joseph O'Neill Netherland

David Park The Truth Commissioner

Emily Perkins Novel About My Wife

Tom Piazza City of Refuge

Richard Price Lush Life

Ross Raisin God's Own Country

Ruana Rajepakse The Garland of Fate

Ron Rash Serena

Roxana Robinson Cost

Marilynne Robinson Home

Olivier Rolin Hotel Crystal translated by Jane Kuntz

Evelio Rosere The Armies translated by Anne McLean

Philip Roth Indignation

Anuradha Roy An Atlas of Impossible Longing

Salman Rushdie The Enchantress of Florence

Mary Doria Russell Dreamers of the Day

José Saramago Death With Interuptions

Ingo Schulze New Lives: The youth of Enrico Turmer in letter and prose

Anne Simpson Falling

Jaspreet Singh Chef

Curtis Sittenfeld American Wife

Paul Leslie Smith Rainforest Tears ; a Borneo Story

Tom Rob Smith Child 44

Sasa Stanisic How the Soldier Repairs the Gramaphone

Garth Stein The Art of Racing in the Rain

Fred Stenson The Great Karoo

Neal Stephenson Anathem

Joan Thomas Reading by Lightning

Hannah Tinti The Good Thief

Steve Toltz A Fraction of the Whole

Illija Trojanov The Collector of Worlds translated by William Hobson

Christos Tsiolkas The Slap

Linn Ullmann A Blessed Child

Cecilia Urbina A Tuesday Like Today

Simone van der Vlugt The Renunion

Fred Vargas This Night's Foul Work

Juan Gabriel Vasquez The Informers

Tanguy Viel Beyond Suspicion

John Edgar Wideman Fanon

Tim Winton Breath

Esther Woolfson Piano Angel

David Wroblewski The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

Michael Winter The Architects are Here

Arnold Zable Sea of Many Returns

Zoran Zivkovic Escher's Loops

Now, that's what I call a LONG list!

How are the judges supposed to get through all of these books by April?

>2: my thoughts exactly!!

Good grief! It takes quite awhile just to read the list.

kidzdoc, you might like Zoran Živković. He can get pretty surreal. I'm never sure where to tell people to start with him. Maybe The Book/The Writer/The Reader is a good place. Either you'll like his writing or you'll really dislike it. He has been published by small presses in English and some (several?) have folded. There is a politician by the same name so he will show up in a lot of net searches also. I haven't read Escher's Loop though.

Of the books on the long list that I've read (15) I'll say The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine is prize worthy.

Thanks for recommending Zoran Živković, VisibleGhost. I've added The Book / The Writer to my wish list. "Escher's Loops" hasn't been published in the UK (or US) yet, but the author's web site has an excerpt from the book.

By my count I've read 17 of the books on this list, and I own 14 others, including The Hakawati, which I'll get to next year. My favorites are The Spare Room, God's Own Country, Sea of Poppies, Death with Interruptions and Frida's Bed.

I've only read The White Tiger, Chicago, A Plague of Doves, Netherland, Lush Life, Indignation, and The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. Of these, I consider Netherland and Lush Life worthy of a prize, and possibly A Plague of Doves although I thought the last part of it did not match the quality of the first 3/4s. But of course I haven't read the other books on the list -- it's certainly a varied bunch!

I can see several there which I have read and won't even make the shortlist. This is my favourite award because the shortlist usually has a few books I never heard of.

I see that Joseph Boyden's Through Black Spruce is nominated- that book won the 2008 Giller prize.
I have read
Aravind Adiga The White Tiger
Geraldine Brooks People of the Book
Andrew Davidson The Gargoyle
Slavenka Drakulic Frida's Bed
Steven Galloway The Cellist of Sarajevo
Sadie Jones The Outcast
Salman Rushdie The Enchantress of Florence
Tom Rob Smith Child 44
Hannah Tinti The Good Thief

Books in my TBR pile
Muriel Barbery The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Joseph Boyden Through Black Spruce
Hillary Jordan Mudbound
Joseph O'Neill Netherland
Fred Stenson The Great Karoo
Christos Tsiolkas The Slap
David Wroblewski The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

Canadian books that I should read
Marian Endicott Good to a Fault-was nominated for the Giller
Rawi Hage Cockroach-was nominated for a number of prizes

Book that I stopped reading
Simon Sebag Montefiore Sashenka- how could it be on this list? One of my friends also stopped reading it!

The IMPAC Dublin Literary Award web site now has the official LONGlist, with summaries of each book:

The 2010 Award Longlist

I like Cyrel's post in message 10; I'll do the same.

Books I've read:
Aravind Adiga: The White Tiger
Gerbrand Bakker: The Twin
Sebastian Barry: The Secret Scripture
Slavenka Drakulic: Frida's Bed
Helen Garner: The Spare Room
Amitav Ghosh: Sea of Poppies
Samantha Hunt: The Invention of Everything Else
Adam Mars-Jones: Pilcrow
Joseph O'Neill: Netherland
Ross Raisin: God's Own Country
Evelio Rosero: The Armies
Salman Rushdie: The Enchantress of Florence
José Saramago: Death With Interruptions
Tom Rob Smith: Child 44
Steve Toltz: A Fraction of the Whole
John Edgar Wideman: Fanon
Tim Winton: Breath

Books I own but haven't read yet:
Alaa Al Aswany: Chicago
Rabih Alameddine: The Hakawati
Paul Auster: Man in the Dark
Ethan Canin: America, America
Peter Carey: His Illegal Self
Louise Erdrich: The Plague of Doves
Bernardine Evaristo: Blonde Roots
Rawi Hage: Cockroach
Milton Hatoum: Ashes of the Amazon
Philip Hensher: The Northern Clemency
Ma Jian: Beijing Coma
Sadie Jones: The Outcast
James Kelman: Kieron Smith, Boy
Juan Gabriel Vasquez: The Informers

What a crazy, long list! What is this award about, anyway? I looked at some of the books on long lists from other years and I find the choices odd. The range goes from Pulitzer and Booker winners to best sellers like The DaVinci Code and John Grisham novels.

Anyway, for a number of reasons, I read very few new books. I haven't read any of these, and I only have two in Planet TBR: The Cellist of Sarajevo and The Slap.

I agree, Nickelini, the choices seem to be, literally, "all over the map". American Wife. Child 44, Arctic Chill. Home, and The Enchantress of Florence all on the same list?!!!

I own quite a few of these books but have only read 19 so I will put the read ones in categories

LOVED:

Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
Molly Fox's Birthday by Deirdre Madden
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
The Northern Clemency by Phillip Hensher

The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante
The Spare Room by Helen Garner

The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

Really Liked:

The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam by Lauren Lienenberg
The Outcast by Sadie Jones
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh

Perhaps Should have Liked but Didn't:

Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
Lush Life by Richard Price

Thought were Flawed but Liked:

Man in the Dark by Paul Auster

Thought were flawed and Did Not Like:

Telus from Cuba by Rachel Kushner
Story of a Marriage by Andrew Sean Greer
The Believers by Zoe Heller
The Invention of Everything Else by Samantha Hunt

Message edited by its author, Nov 11, 2009, 10:57pm.

Now that I look at this list, I feel a bit ashamed, as I realize that the bottom three categories are all American writers. I honestly did not think of that when I put up preferences, but maybe European writing style (if there is such a thing) resonates with me more?

Read
Muriel Barbery The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Sebastian Barry The Secret Scripture
Geraldine Brooks People of the Book
Eleanor Catton The Rehearsal (New Zealand Best First Book Award 2009)
Kate de Goldi The 10pm Question (NZ Post Children's & YA Book of the Year 2009 & shortlisted for NZ Book of Year)
Tom Rob Smith Child 44
Hannah Tinti The Good Thief

On my tbr bookshelf
David Benioff City of Thieves
Andrea Camilleri The Paper Moon
Gyorgy Dragoman The White King
Helen Garner The Spare Room
Zoe Heller The Believers
Stephanie Johnson Swimmer's Rope (New Zealand)
Andrei Makine Human Love
Linda Olsson Sonata for Miriam (New Zealand)
Emily Perkins Novel About My Wife (New Zealand Book of the Year 2009)
Salman Rushdie The Enchantress of Florence
Mary Doria Russell Dreamers of the Day
Curtis Sittenfeld American Wife
Neal Stephenson Anathem
Steve Toltz A Fraction of the Whole
Tim Winton Breath

Of the ones I've read I really liked People of the Book, The Rehearsal, The Secret Scripture. Runners up - The Elegance of the hedgehog, The Good Thief.