The Bookerer
50+ years, 300+ books, and one man with evidently too much time on his hands.
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The 2020 Booker Prize
In this seemingly never-ending year filled with important elections, civil unrest, long overdue worldwide demonstrations for racial justice, and, oh yes, a global pandemic, it can feel almost bizarre to be focusing on a book prize. The Booker Prize itself moved back its announcement of the shortlist to give the longlisted authors more exposure (and…
2019
With the recent announcement of the 2020 longlist, and as I have finally finished the final book from the 2019 shortlist, now is as good a time as any to look back over the 6 books that made it to the end of the Booker Prize process (I am also very slowly going to work…
7 Things I Have Learned So Far From Trying To Read all 300+ Booker Prize-shortlisted Novels
So, earlier this year, pre-lockdown, I decided that setting myself a reading list of all shortlisted novels for the Booker Prize was both a) wise, and b) achievable. I obviously understood that it would be a rather large undertaking, especially given the history of the prize and the often brought-up ‘debate’ between the Booker Prize…
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