We asked members of the Booker Prizes family - including several previous winners - to pick a single book from the Booker archive and tell us why they’re looking forward to reading it
Will read The ELECTED MEMBER BY Bernice Rubens suggested by Marlan James. Marlan was the first West Indian to receive a Booker Prize. His perspective will possibly a bit different
Treacle Walker is at the top of my pile, for no other reason than that it's the next book as I read my way through the 2022 shortlist, an annual ritual.
I'm reading In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova. Then I'm going to read Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively followed by Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan!😊📚
My 1970s Booker reading is a bit lacking. I keep meaning to get round to V. S. Naipaul's In a Free State - aside from his momentous reputation, it's nice and short! And Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Heat and Dust would be a nice follow up, perhaps with Paul Scott's Staying On. Of later winners, I'd like to revisit Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient, as I haven't read it since it won and I've loved all his other books that I've read since. Oh, and finally, 2004 was such a strong shortlist that I want to read the only title on it I haven't read - Achmat Dangor's Bitter Fruit.
I read Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth (1992 Booker Prize winner) years ago, but I fear few others did. It is still one of my all-time favorite books - beautifully written. An absorbing story of the horrors of a slave trade ship (for both slaves and crew)crossing the Atlantic from West Africa to South Carolina, but also a great character study of the captain and doctor aboard. Highly recommended.
Thanks for the tip - and you're right, I think it's a bit under-read. I read its co-winner The English Patient, but not Sacred Hunger. Must fix that. Unsworth is an interesting writer generally.
Will read The ELECTED MEMBER BY Bernice Rubens suggested by Marlan James. Marlan was the first West Indian to receive a Booker Prize. His perspective will possibly a bit different
Treacle Walker is at the top of my pile, for no other reason than that it's the next book as I read my way through the 2022 shortlist, an annual ritual.
Treacle Walker by Alan Garner is next for me, being the final book of all 321 shortlisted books since 1969, I've still to read.
I will reread Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo.
I'm reading In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova. Then I'm going to read Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively followed by Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan!😊📚
My 1970s Booker reading is a bit lacking. I keep meaning to get round to V. S. Naipaul's In a Free State - aside from his momentous reputation, it's nice and short! And Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Heat and Dust would be a nice follow up, perhaps with Paul Scott's Staying On. Of later winners, I'd like to revisit Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient, as I haven't read it since it won and I've loved all his other books that I've read since. Oh, and finally, 2004 was such a strong shortlist that I want to read the only title on it I haven't read - Achmat Dangor's Bitter Fruit.
I read Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth (1992 Booker Prize winner) years ago, but I fear few others did. It is still one of my all-time favorite books - beautifully written. An absorbing story of the horrors of a slave trade ship (for both slaves and crew)crossing the Atlantic from West Africa to South Carolina, but also a great character study of the captain and doctor aboard. Highly recommended.
Thanks for the tip - and you're right, I think it's a bit under-read. I read its co-winner The English Patient, but not Sacred Hunger. Must fix that. Unsworth is an interesting writer generally.
This is by far the best of all his books.