I'm half way through the 6th and enjoying it but I reckon the winner will be...

Pigeon English or
Half Blood Blues

Both rank outsiders at 7-1.

All 6 are excellent and any one deserves to win but that's where I've put my hard earned cash.

I loved The Sisters Brothers too - Patrick deWitt's final Booker entry. What a cracking short list. All 6 tremendous. Huge congratulations to the judges on the finest short list ever and thanks for giving me a month of fantastic reading.

My post on the Booker Debate Forum...

I thought this year's short list was far and away the best ever; I've now read all 6 and enjoyed them all enormously. Each one would be a worthy winner though I'd bet on Pigeon English - a superb debut novel, quite wonderful; with Half Blood Blues as the next most likely.
Snowdrops was great but not a Booker winner - more like a terrific airport paperback. The Julian Barnes is excellent and beautifully printed and presented but not his best - mind you I felt Ian McEwan won with his least good novel. Jamrach's Menagerie is superb; not at all like Life of Pi when you read the book as opposed to the synopsis. I was delighted to discover some of it is based on true facts. And The Sisters Brothers is great and so unusual.
Stella Rimington deserves huge praise for daring to be different and all the judges have my thanks for a marvellous month of enjoyable reading.
By the way, my autobiography was No1 on the Amazon Kindle pop culture chart last week. If anyone cares...

Jonathan King