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Post by Queen on Jul 25, 2018 1:19:27 GMT -5
The Man Booker long list is out Anyone read any of them? www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2018/jul/24/man-booker-prize-2018-longlist-in-pictures| Author (country/territory) | Title (imprint) | | Belinda Bauer (UK) | Snap (Bantam Press) | | Anna Burns (UK) | Milkman (Faber & Faber) | Nick Drnaso (USA)
| Sabrina (Granta Books) | Esi Edugyan (Canada)
| Washington Black (Serpent’s Tail) | Guy Gunaratne (UK)
| In Our Mad And Furious City (Tinder Press) | | Daisy Johnson (UK) | Everything Under (Jonathan Cape) | Rachel Kushner (USA)
| The Mars Room (Jonathan Cape) | Sophie Mackintosh (UK)
| The Water Cure (Hamish Hamilton) | Michael Ondaatje (Canada)
| Warlight (Jonathan Cape) | Richard Powers (USA)
| The Overstory (William Heinemann)
| Robin Robertson (UK)
| The Long Take (Picador)
| Sally Rooney (Ireland)
| Normal People (Faber & Faber) | | Donal Ryan (Ireland) | From A Low And Quiet Sea (Doubleday Ireland) |
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Post by HalcyonDaze on Jul 25, 2018 3:28:43 GMT -5
Have not read any this time round - quite a few I haven't even heard of.
Must get busy!
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Post by Liiisa on Jul 25, 2018 5:08:12 GMT -5
Nope, not a one! Time to copy the list into Wunderlist for the next time I'm browsing in library or bookstore, thank you (saw this last night on Twitter but it wasn't a list, just a photo of the books on a shelf).
So cool that one of them ("Sabrina") is a graphic novel!
ETA: Daisy Johnson's book is "Everything Under"
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Post by lillielangtry on Jul 25, 2018 5:27:01 GMT -5
No, me neither. It's an unusual list, but I don't think that's a bad Thing.
Predictably, lots of outrage below the line at the Guardian about the graphic novel. I generally don't read them myself, but I don't see why they shouldn't be included if they are good enough.
I'm on a bit of a self-imposed book ban at the Moment so I'm not going to get any of them now, but I might get the winner if it seems like I'll like it.
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Post by ozziegiraffe on Jul 25, 2018 6:37:43 GMT -5
Haven't heard of any of them. However, I'm my current audiobook won in 2014.
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Post by Queen on Jul 25, 2018 8:29:59 GMT -5
This page has book blurbs... lots of lonely women and angry men hmmm themanbookerprize.com/fictionLike the sound of Washington Black and The Overstory |
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Post by sophie on Jul 25, 2018 10:58:58 GMT -5
I have read Warlight (posted about it earlier). Several look really interesting.
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Post by Liiisa on Jul 25, 2018 16:18:55 GMT -5
I love that Leanne Shapton was on the prize panel. She's the one who wrote the book that got me listening to Radiohead ( www.leanneshapton.com/important-artifacts). (One of the artifacts is a slip of paper where the man promises the woman that he will listen to his "Radiohead dirges" less often, and I was like "dirges, hmm") |
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