Booker Longlist – Shuggie Bain – Douglas Stuart
Book Four– reviewed by panelists Book Worm, Anita, Nicole and rated by Tracy and Susie
Posts by Nicole Del Sesto
Aug 24
3 Comments
Booker Longlist – Apeirogon – Colum McCann
Book Three – reviewed by panelists Jen, Tracy, Susie and rated by BookWorm and Nicole
Booker Longlist – Redhead by the Side of the Road – Anne Tyler
Book Two – reviewed by panelists Book Worm, Tracy, Lisa and rated by Nicole
Booker Longlist – Such a Fun Age – Kiley Reid
Book One – reviewed by panelists Nicole, Lisa and Susie rated by BookWorm and Tracy.
The Booker 2020 Long List has arrived
We are super pumped to be reading ….(a bunch of books we didn’t predict!)
The New Wilderness by Diane Cook (US) (US Pub date August 11)
This Mournable Body by Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe) (Amazon pub date says 2018)
Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi (US) (don’t see a US pub date)
Who They Was by Gabriel Krauze (UK) (UK pub date September 3)
The Mirror and The Light by Hilary Mantel (UK)
Apeirogon by Colum McCann (Ireland-US)
The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste (Ethiopia-US)
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid (US)
Real Life by Brandon Taylor (US)
Redhead by The Side of the Road by Anne Tyler (US)
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart (Scotland-US)
Love and Other Thought Experiments by Sophie Ward (UK)
How Much of These Hills is Gold by C Pam Zhang (US)
Jul 27
The 2020 Booker Longlist Predictions Post!
The official longlist for this years Booker Prize is due to be announced on July 28 (midnight UK on the 27th!) so in the “readersroom” tradition of recent years we have assembled our shadow panel and put together our own predictions for the longlist.
Here’s hoping our 2020 Booker longlist far surpasses 2020 everything else.
May 6
Apeirogon: A Novel – Colum McCann
Could this be the start of Booker season? I really hope so. Last year I was very wrong with my hopes and dreams for On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous.
Apeirogon: A Novel – Colum McCann
Published: February 25, 2020
Reviewed by: Nicole
Rating: 5/5
An early look at upcoming 2020 books.
I hit an ARC jackpot at Edelweiss last month and got to read some of the most anticipated books of 2020. The only one I didn’t get that I wanted was The Glass Hotel (come on Knopf!)
Jul 23
The Longlist is here! The Longlist is here!
No total left field picks this year … Nicole’s strategy backfired and I’m completely gutted to see that On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous didn’t make the list.
Booker Prize 2019: the longlist
Margaret Atwood (Canada) – The Testaments (Vintage, Chatto & Windus)
Kevin Barry (Ireland) – Night Boat to Tangier (Canongate Books)
Oyinkan Braithwaite (UK/Nigeria) – My Sister, The Serial Killer (Atlantic Books)
Lucy Ellmann (USA/UK) – Ducks, Newburyport (Galley Beggar Press)
Bernardine Evaristo (UK) – Girl, Woman, Other (Hamish Hamilton)
John Lanchester (UK) – The Wall (Faber & Faber)
Deborah Levy (UK) – The Man Who Saw Everything (Hamish Hamilton)
Valeria Luiselli (Mexico/Italy) – Lost Children Archive (4th Estate)
Chigozie Obioma (Nigeria) – An Orchestra of Minorities (Little Brown)
Max Porter (UK) – Lanny (Faber & Faber)
Salman Rushdie (UK/India) – Quichotte (Jonathan Cape)
Elif Shafak (UK/Turkey) – 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World (Viking)
Jeanette Winterson (UK) – Frankissstein (Jonathan Cape)
Jul 22
Lost Children Archive – Valeria Luiselli
Lost Children Archive – Valeria Luiselli
Published in: 2019
Reviewed by: Nicole
Rating: 5/5
Ground Control to Major Tom
jenp27
Nicole Del Sesto
The Reader's Room 