I’ve read a few of them, and I wish I had a ton of time to read all of them. I’ve found it’s a pretty A+ way to find a book that will be worth my time. These were my favorites, although I admittedly have probably only read 5 or so beyond this:
*An Artist of the Floating World* by Kazuo Ishiguro (shortlist)
*The Remains of the Day* by Kazuo Ishiguro (winner)
*Moon Tiger* by Penelope Lively (winner)
*Heat and Dust* by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (winner)
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The last winner I’ve read is Lincoln In The Bardo (2017) and it’s very good.
My all time favourite winner is Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies.
My favourite shortlist nomination is The Ovetstory and Eileen.
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The prophet song is supposed to be very good. It releases in the US in a few days will probably pick it up.
Also “The Remains of the Day” is very good and won the booker prize.
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My favourites are
Penelope Lively Moon Tiger
JG Farrells Troubles
Arundhati Roy’s God of Small Things
Alan Hollinghurst Line of Beauty
Douglas Adam’s Shuggie Bain
And in fact these are some of my favourite books of all time!
I’ve also enjoyed Kiran Desai’s Inheritance of Loss and a few others on there, but those are my absolute favourites.
And that’s not including shortlisted books, I’d be here all day. Often I think the shortlisted are better than the winners but it’s all down to personal preference!
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James Kelman’s How Late It Was How Late – handed the establishment the bloody nose it had been asking for.
Marlon James’ A Brief History of Many Killings for similar reasons.
Aravind Adiga’s White Tiger – A fun yet ever so dark tale of class obsessed India. With the added bonus of a character named ‘Pinky Madam’.
Thomas Keneally’s Schindler’s Ark – popularised by Spielberg’s devastatingly horrifying Holocaust movie Schindler’s List. We all know the story.
Peter Carey’s ironically titled, quasi-epistolary novel, The True History of the Kelly Gang.
That’s my personal top 5, but very few Booker winners have been poor (looking at you Hollinghurst)*
*All imo – I’ve not read any of the earlier winners published before William Golding’s Rites of Passage.
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I’ve read a few of them, and I wish I had a ton of time to read all of them. I’ve found it’s a pretty A+ way to find a book that will be worth my time. These were my favorites, although I admittedly have probably only read 5 or so beyond this:
*An Artist of the Floating World* by Kazuo Ishiguro (shortlist)
*The Remains of the Day* by Kazuo Ishiguro (winner)
*Moon Tiger* by Penelope Lively (winner)
*Heat and Dust* by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (winner)
The last winner I’ve read is Lincoln In The Bardo (2017) and it’s very good.
My all time favourite winner is Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies.
My favourite shortlist nomination is The Ovetstory and Eileen.
The prophet song is supposed to be very good. It releases in the US in a few days will probably pick it up.
Also “The Remains of the Day” is very good and won the booker prize.
My favourites are
Penelope Lively Moon Tiger
JG Farrells Troubles
Arundhati Roy’s God of Small Things
Alan Hollinghurst Line of Beauty
Douglas Adam’s Shuggie Bain
And in fact these are some of my favourite books of all time!
I’ve also enjoyed Kiran Desai’s Inheritance of Loss and a few others on there, but those are my absolute favourites.
And that’s not including shortlisted books, I’d be here all day. Often I think the shortlisted are better than the winners but it’s all down to personal preference!
James Kelman’s How Late It Was How Late – handed the establishment the bloody nose it had been asking for.
Marlon James’ A Brief History of Many Killings for similar reasons.
Aravind Adiga’s White Tiger – A fun yet ever so dark tale of class obsessed India. With the added bonus of a character named ‘Pinky Madam’.
Thomas Keneally’s Schindler’s Ark – popularised by Spielberg’s devastatingly horrifying Holocaust movie Schindler’s List. We all know the story.
Peter Carey’s ironically titled, quasi-epistolary novel, The True History of the Kelly Gang.
That’s my personal top 5, but very few Booker winners have been poor (looking at you Hollinghurst)*
*All imo – I’ve not read any of the earlier winners published before William Golding’s Rites of Passage.