Man Booker Challenge
by Athena ~ December 1st, 2007. Filed under: Books.
I’m a reading challenges addict! Here is Dewey’s second challenge, six books from the Man Booker Prize to be read between January to December 2008.
- The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
- Life & Times of Michael K
- Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
- The Gathering by Anne Enright
- Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
- The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Alternates:
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
Schindler’s Ark by Thomas Keneally
The Sea by John Banville
Posession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Atonement by Ian McEwan (shortlisted)
…and the rest
Bookers I have read:
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
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December 1st, 2007 at 3:37 pm
Yay! Thanks for joining. Did you like Life of Pi? It’s one of my choices for the challenge.
December 1st, 2007 at 3:40 pm
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December 1st, 2007 at 5:54 pm
I loved both The God of Small Things and The Remains of the Day. I also really recommend Posession. I haven’t made my list for this challenge yet, but I know I’ll include Midnight’s Children too, because I’m already reading it for the Book Awards Challenge.
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