Some Hanky-Panky with Not Booker Shortlist

Reader's votes are now in for The Guardian blog's Not the Booker, and the shortlist is :

Rana Dasgupta – Solo – 85 votes
James Palumbo – Tomas – 81 votes
Eleanor Thom – The Tin Kin – 79 votes
Simon Crump – Neverland – 65 votes
MJ Hyland – This Is How – 43 votes
Jenn Ashworth – Intimacy – 41 votes

Though he suspected that there was some fishy business going on with the voting, Sam Jordison feels that it added rather to the fun. He now promises to read each of these titles in turn, in alphabetical order, and invites the public to read along with him.