#booker shortlist

[booksperience]

(via Reading Booker Shortlist-2022)

(Written on October 17, 2022) It’s been on my bucket list for years to read the Booker-shortlisted books of the year once declared. And I could only achieve it this year. The following are the six books on the Booker shortlist-2022: 1. Treacle Walker by Alan Garner 2. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka 3. The Trees by Percival Everett 4. Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout 5. Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo 6. Small Things like These by Claire Keegan The order of the above list is as per how I liked them. In my view, Treacle Walker by Alan Garner stands out as the best in terms of literary value, hence its top position. If I were the sole Booker judge, I would have awarded the prize to Alan Garner. However, I guess this year’s Booker might go to the next title on the list, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka. It would then be the first ever Booker for Sri Lanka. Here are the synopses of the books: Treacle Walker by Alan Garner: It explores the friendship between an older man and a little boy. There is a beautiful portrayal of the innocent and carefree world of childhood. Different time periods blend seamlessly. Spaces mix as well, and the real world at times looks magical. There is hardly a solid plot or a fully rounded story, but the sheer exuberance of language in this thin volume beats all others on the shortlist. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka: An intriguing story unfolding against the backdrop of the ethnic strife among the Tamil, Sinhalese, and other communities, and the civil war in the Sri Lanka during the nineteen eighties. It uti... (Read full text on booksperience.org)

#alan garner #booker authors #booker prediction #booker prize #booker prize prediction #booker reading #booker shortlist #civil war #claire keegan #elizabeth strout #ethnic conflict #glory #noviolet bulawayo #oh william #percival everett #racism #shehan karunatilaka #small things like these #the booker prizes #the seven moons of maali almeida #the trees #treacle walker #racial discrimination #booksperience

[words-after-midnight]

i do find it funny (a "hm, interesting" kind of funny) how many books shortlisted for prestigious literary prizes are books that, if we're going by standard industry rules and guidelines, should never have been published in the first place.

#came across a book earlier (mass market paperback) that was probably 1000 pages long #flipped through it and it appears to be like 80% stream of consciousness #shortlisted for the booker prize #books #reading tag

[wellesleybooks]

The Booker Prize shortlist has been announced! Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best sustained work of fiction written in English and published in the UK and Ireland. The covers shown are the British editions. We have copies of all the books that are available right now including: The Bee Sting by Paul Murray Western Lane by Chetna Maroo This Other Eden by Paul Harding If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein Prophet Song by Paul Lynch will be published 12/23

#booker prize #shortlist #paul murray #chetna maroo #paul harding #jonathan escoffery #paul lynch #ww norton #macmillian #atlantic monthly #farrar straus giroux #knopf canada #picador

[mariemariemaria]

yall prophet song is SO good

#it is so immersive. which is scary. like im reading it and truly forget that it's not actually happening in ireland rn* #which sounds sooo dumb lol. i'll go on a news website and for a moment wonder why they're not covering the protests in dublin 😭 #considering the writing style i really didn't expect the reading experience to be like this #but yeah it really deserved to win the booker (<- has not read anything else from the shortlist) #how do you even write a book this good? #it is scary though. im so worried about world politics #*except also so aware that in many ways it IS happening. that while the far right were rejected at the last election they're still a threat #that violent extremists are here and they're acting now. that authoritarianism doesn't arrive one day out of nowhere. that it's journey #takes years and may sometimes be a silent one but is not invisible. that it becomes louder everyday. etc etc etc

[kheldara]

It was a tune with wings, trampling things, tightened strings, boggarts and bogles and brags on their feet; the man in the oak, sickness and fever, that set in a long, lasting sleep the whole great world with the sweetness of sound the bone did play.

Alan Garner, Treacle Walker

#Alan Garner #treacle Walker #what a truly wonderful inclusion on the booker shortlist #every sentence is a joy

[naberiie]

finished boulder by eva baltasar today and am a bit conflicted. i really related to the disgust the pov character, a queer woman, felt towards all things pregnancy and childbirth related. it was so genuinely refreshing to read the way the author wrote never couched that disgust or ever shamed her for it. the despair i felt while reading as the noose of her situation gradually closed in with no way out was an incredibly unique experience. and then it flipped on its head to ‘i didn’t love my child until i held it and now i want nothing more’. i recognize that it’s a subversion of a heteronormative trope, where it’s the father who feels increasingly alienated from and confused by his changing partner throughout a pregnancy but then he holds the baby and finally Gets It. i didn’t want her to get it. i wanted her to get out, with that same utterly refreshing lack of condemnation

#naberiie reads #boulder #eva baltasar #international booker prize shortlist 2023

[waugh-bao]

Keith (1983)

#honestly all I cared about in this picture was the book #it’s Confederates by Thomas Keneally #I’ll give Keith some credit taste wise #because that book was Man Booker Prize shortlisted #it’s also cute that he got more into the Civil War because of Charlie/they used to chat about it #the rolling stones #keith richards #middle aged married band #the rose in the beer/cider/whatever that is bottle is nice too I guess

[rockislandadultreads]

2022 Booker Prize: Shortlist 

Enjoy some of the titles shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize! For a list of all of the finalists (as well as the longlist), visit https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/prize-years/2022.

Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo

Glory centers around the unexpected fall of Old Horse, a long-serving leader of a fictional country, and the drama that follows for a rumbustious nation of animals on the path to true liberation. Inspired by the unexpected fall by coup, in November 2017, of Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's president of nearly four decades, Bulawayo's bold, vividly imagined novel shows a country imploding, narrated by a chorus of animal voices who unveil the ruthlessness and cold strategy required to uphold the illusion of absolute power, and the imagination and bullet-proof optimism to overthrow it completely. As with her debut novel We Need New Names, Bulawayo's fierce voice and lucid imagery immerses us in the daily life of a traumatized nation, revealing the dazzling life force and irrepressible wit that lies barely concealed beneath the surface of seemingly bleak circumstances. At the center of this tumult is Destiny, who has returned to Jidada from exile to bear witness to revolution - and focus on the unofficial history and the potential legacy of the women who have quietly pulled the strings in this country.

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

It is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church.

The Trees by Percival Everett 

Percival Everett’s The Trees is a page-turner that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi. When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive, they meet expected resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a string of racist White townsfolk. The murders present a puzzle, for at each crime scene there is a second dead body: that of a man who resembles Emmett Till. The detectives suspect that these are killings of retribution, but soon discover that eerily similar murders are taking place all over the country. Something truly strange is afoot. As the bodies pile up, the MBI detectives seek answers from a local root doctor who has been documenting every lynching in the country for years, uncovering a history that refuses to be buried. In this bold, provocative book, Everett takes direct aim at racism and police violence, and does so in fast-paced style that ensures the reader can’t look away. The Trees is an enormously powerful novel of lasting importance from an author with his finger on America’s pulse.

Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout

Lucy Barton is a writer, but her ex-husband, William, remains a hard man to read. William, she confesses, has always been a mystery to me. Another mystery is why the two have remained connected after all these years. They just are. So Lucy is both surprised and not surprised when William asks her to join him on a trip to investigate a recently uncovered family secret - one of those secrets that rearrange everything we think we know about the people closest to us. There are fears and insecurities, simple joys and acts of tenderness, and revelations about affairs and other spouses, parents and their children. On every page of this exquisite novel we learn more about the quiet forces that hold us together - even after we’ve grown apart. At the heart of this story is the indomitable voice of Lucy Barton, who offers a profound, lasting reflection on the very nature of existence. “This is the way of life,” Lucy says: “the many things we do not know until it is too late.”

This is the third volume in the “Amgash” series. The first two books are My Name is Lucy Barton and Anything is Possible, respectively. 

#fiction #novels #booker prize #shortlist #book recs #book recommendations #reading recs #reading recommendations #library books #TBR pile #tbr #to read #booklr #book tumblr

[booksofdelight]

The International Booker Prize Shortlist 2024 Announced

Find out the six books shortlisted for the International Booker Prize award for 2024!

The six novels for the International Booker Prize shortlist for this year have been announced. This year’s shortlist includes six books from six different countries and six different languages. They are from three different continents, highlighting human experiences from all over the world. “Novels carry us to places where we might never set foot and connect us with new sensations and…

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#2024 #Blog #blogging #book #book review #books #books to read #Fiction #International Booker Prize #news #novel #reading #shortlist #writing

[wordshaveteeth]

Why I picked this: Firstly, it was shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize (I’m trying to incorporate more translated novels into my reading); and secondly, it was a queer novel and I don’t usually choose those. But I had such a beautiful experience with This Is How You Lose The Time War that I thought I’d give it another go. It also didn’t hurt that Boulder is about 100 pages in length. Sometimes when all you’ve been eating is three course meals, the stomach craves a snack.

And how beautiful is the cover!?

#eva baltasar #julia sanches #boulder #international booker prize shortlist #queer fiction #books and reading #bookshelf #translated literature

[lilianeruyters]

My winner is ...

Booker Prize Shortlist 2023 Tonight the judges will reveal the Booker Prize winner of 2023. I am curious to find out which novel they prefer, whether their choice will coincide with mine. Experience over the past few years has shown we tend to differ in our opinions. This year I had one definite ‘yes’, one ‘would be nice’, two ‘well allright I am not complaining’ and two definiti ‘no’s. To…

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#reading is fun #American literature #Booker Prize #Booker Prize Shortlist 2023 #British writer #Chetna Maroo #Great Novel #Great reading #If I Survive You #Irish literature #Irish writer #Jonathan Escoffery #literature #Paul Harding #Paul Lynch #Paul Murray #Prophet Song #Sarah Bernstein #Study for Obedience #The Bee Sting #This Other Eden #Western Lane

[ninunair]

Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai | Book Review

Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai is a soul-soothing narrative that immerses readers in the beautiful tale of two sisters, coming together for a summer, evading the emotional turmoils and life’s hard realities. When I started the book, I anticipated a collection of loosely strung stories against the backdrop of post-partition threatening to overshadow everything else, but I was proven wrong!…

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#Book Recommendation #Book Review #Booker Prize Shortlisted #Postcolonial

[nkeshyy]

It occurs to you that people like you—people who burn themselves up in pursuit of survival—rarely survive anyone or anything.

—Jonathan Escoffery, from "If I Survive You."

#literary fiction books #booker prize shortlist #booker prize 2023 #jonathan escoffery #if i survive you #political narratives #survival #emotional anguish #microagressions #transitions #literature #black writings #book recommendations #the booker prize

[weinberl]

Gauz’ ‘Standing Heavy’

“Booker International Prize 2023: Books that made my shortlist for this prize.“Standing Heavy”: In order of reading book number 3. Employers are all too willing to overlook official status. The morphological profile is supposedly appropriate. Morphological profile . . . Black men are heavy-set; Black men are tall; Black men are strong; Black men are deferential; Black men are scary. It is…

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#Booker international Prize shortlist #Le nouvel Attila #Littérature Française #MacLehose Press

[9racereads]

The Booker Prize Shortlist 2022

Let's chat the biggest literary award of the year -- the Booker Prize shortlist 2022

This post may contain affiliate links, meaning that if you buy something, I might earn a small commission from that sale at no cost to you. As always, my links support indie bookstores. Read my full disclosure here. Thank you for your support. There is much abuzz in the literary community, as one of the most prestigious awards around announced its shortlist yesterday. So let’s talk about the…

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#alan garner #booker prize #books #claire keegan #elizabeth strout #literary #noviolet bulawayo #percival everett #shehan karunatilkaka #shortlist

[naberiie]

ohhh man i hope whale by cheon myeong-kwan wakes the international booker. i’m only a few chapters in and it’s absolutely enthralling. i didn’t vibe with time shelter or the ending of boulder (but i loved the writing in that one, it was so clean and stark), and i haven’t had the chance to read the other three yet. but whale is already magical

#naberiie reads #international booker prize shortlist 2023 #i think i read somewhere that it was billed for fans of one hundred years of solitude and i put it on hold S O fast