Booker prize longlist 2012: what do you think?

Greetings, Booker-lovers. The 2012 longlist - as selected by this year's panel, Dinah Birch , Amanda Foreman , Dan Stevens , Bharat Tandon and chair Sir Peter Stothard - has been announced. News story, comment and gallery of the longlisted titles to follow; meanwhile, take a look at the list and tell us what you think. Better/worse than last year? Too low-brow; too highfalutin'? Too many genre titles again? The longlist The Yips by Nicola Barker (Fourth Estate) The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman (Sceptre) Philida by André Brink (Harvill Secker) The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng (Myrmidon Books) Skios by Michael Frayn (Faber & Faber) The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce (Doubleday) Swimming Home by Deborah Levy (And Other Stories) Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel (Fourth Estate) The Lighthouse by Alison Moore (Salt) Umbrella by Will Self (Bloomsbury) Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil (Faber & Faber) Communion Town by Sam Thompson (Fourth Estate)