Laura's 2008 Goals and Progress

I’ve followed the Booker Prize for several years now, and started The Complete Booker to encourage others to join me in reading works by these great authors. I read 4 Booker winners in 2007, so I’ll begin 2008 having read 11 of the 41 winners. Not that I need any motivation, but I’m also going to participate in Dewey’s Man Booker Challenge!


Before the year is out, I’d like to read at least 6 Booker winners, including:

• 2007 - The Gathering (Enright) (completed 4/2/2008)
• 2004 - The Line of Beauty (Hollinghurst) (DNF, 9/6/2008)
• 1996 - Last Orders (Swift) (completed 10/15/2008)
• 1992 - Sacred Hunger (Unsworth) (completed 11/9/2008)
• 1990 - Possession: A Romance (Byatt) (completed 7/6/2008)
• 1988 - Oscar and Lucinda (Carey) (completed 5/6/2008)
• 1985 - The Bone People (Hulme) (completed 3/30/2008)
• 1981 - Midnight's Children (Rushdie) (completed 6/8/2008)
• 1978 - The Sea, the Sea (Murdoch) (completed 2/21/2008)
• 1974 - The Conservationist (Gordimer) (completed 11/25/2008)
• 1971 - In a Free State (Naipaul) (completed 4/23/2008)

Complete List of Booker Winners Read (with links to reviews where available):

2007 - The Gathering (Enright)

2006 - The Inheritance of Loss (Desai)
2005 - The Sea (Banville)

2004 - The Line of Beauty (Hollinghurst)
2002 - Life of Pi (Martel)
2001 - True History of the Kelly Gang (Carey)
2000 - The Blind Assassin (Atwood)
1998 - Amsterdam: A Novel (McEwan)
1997 - The God of Small Things (Roy)

1996 - Last Orders (Swift)
1992 - The English Patient (Ondaatje)

1992 - Sacred Hunger (Unsworth)

1990 - Possession: A Romance (Byatt)

1988 - Oscar and Lucinda (Carey)

1985 - The Bone People (Hulme)
1984 - Hotel du Lac (Brookner)

1981 - Midnight's Children (Rushdie)

1978 - The Sea, the Sea (Murdoch)

1977 - Staying on (Scott)

1975 - Heat and Dust (Jhabvala)

1974 - The Conservationist (Gordimer)

1971 - In a Free State (Naipaul)