I decided to see how many Man Booker winners I had actually read and even though its only four (one of which I need to re-read) that was two more than I thought I had read. When I started looking at the short lists and the long lists I suddenly felt a little more pleased with my reading efforts. I thought I would share them with you, I have highlighted the ones that I have enjoyed and left the other ones normal, I didnt want to steal Harriets colour co-ordinating idea though I loved it! So the ones I have read are...
Winners
The Line of Beauty – Alan Hollinghurst (2004)
The Life of Pie – Yann Martell (2002)
Amsterdam – Ian McEwan (1998)
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy (1997)
Shortlisted
Darkmans – Nicola Barker (2007)
Mister Pip – Lloyd Jones (2007)
On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan (2007)
Animals People – Indra Sinha (2007)
The Night Watch – Sarah Waters (2006)
Arthur & George – Julian Barnes (2005)
On Beauty – Zadie Smith (2005)
The Accidental – Ali Smith (2005)
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell (2004)
Notes on a Scandal – Zoe Heller (2003)
Atonement – Ian McEwan (2001)
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood (1986)
An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro (1986)
Long Listed
What Was Lost – Catherine O’Flynn (2007)
The Testament of Gideon Mack – James Robertson (2006)
A Short History of Tractors in the Ukraine – Marina Lewycka (2005)
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell – Susanna Clarke (2004)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon (2003)
Spies – Michael Frayn (2002)
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things – Jon McGregor (2002)
Dorian – Will Self (2002)
I have checked in my TBR pile and TBR boxes and I have quite a few winners, short listed and long listed books to go through so as I do I shall keep you posted. The White Tiger will be going straight to the top 5 of my TBR. I just want to read the shortlisted Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry and the longlisted Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith. I will add the tag Man Booker to any that have won etc. So have I missed any great ones? Which ones would you recommend I get onto right now and which ones I should possibly avoid?
4 comments:
I'm trying to read all of the books shortlisted for the Booker prize. So far I've read 41 (14 of these are Booker winners) My favourite of them has been A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry.
My original aim was to have read them all before the 50th anniversary of the Bookers in 2018, but at 23 books a year I may not quite get there - hopefully I'll be close though!
This is interesting. Just looking at your list I find I have read and enjoyed more of the shortlisted ones than the winners. I must do a recheck and see what colours I can come up with next time!
Farmlane - I had the same thought about reading all the shortlisted books that have been on the lists and though I think that doing it by the 50th anniversary might be quite some feat.
Harriet - I have enjoyed the Man Booker winners that I have read however I would say that I personally like you prefer the shortlisted ones that I have read until now. Looking them all up I was actually shocked at the winners when I saw just which books were on the shortlist. Maybe it just shows I will never prempt a winner lol.
I absolutely love the cover of your White Tiger.. I haven't seen that before. I keep a list of Booker winners I've read on my blog, but this is a good idea to list the shortlist and longlist as well.. I'll copy your idea soon. :D
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