Thank you to Laura for inviting me to join this group! I have used the Booker shortlist and winners for many years to guide my reading--coming into 2008 I have read 19 Booker winners, and I plan to read 8 this year from among the following:
Booker Winners I plan to read in 2008
2007 - The Gathering (Enright)
2005 - The Sea (Banville)
2004 - The Line of Beauty (Hollinghurst)
1994 - How Late It Was, How Late (Kelman)
1991 - The Famished Road (Okri)
1989 - The Remains of the Day (Ishiguro)
1987 - Moon Tiger (Lively)
1985 - The Bone People (Hulme)
1984 - Hotel Du Lac (Brookner)
1972 - G. (Berger)
1970 - The Elected Member (Rubens)
Booker Winners I Have Read
2006 - The Inheritance of Loss (Desai)
2002 - Life of Pi (Martel)
2001 - True History of the Kelly Gang (Carey)
2000 - The Blind Assassin (Atwood)
1999 - Disgrace (Coetzee)
1998 - Amsterdam: A Novel (McEwan)
1997 - The God of Small Things (Roy)
1996 - Last Orders (Swift)
1995 - The Ghost Road (Barker)
1993 - Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (Doyle)
1992 - The English Patient (Ondaatje)
1992 - Sacred Hunger (Unsworth)
1990 - Possession: A Romance (Byatt)
1988 - Oscar and Lucinda (Carey)
1982 - Schindler's Ark (Keneally)
1981 - Midnight's Children (Rushdie)
1979 - Offshore (Fitzgerald)
1975 - Heat and Dust (Jhabvala)
1973 - The Siege of Krishnapur (Farrell)
I haven't written any reviews of the above, but I started writing reviews this year on my blog, so I will crosspost here as I go.
Wow! You could feasibly finish off the list by the end of next year. That's amazing!
ReplyDeleteWow, 19 read already! I am impressed! And I have not read many of your TBRs yet so am looking forward to your reviews.
ReplyDeleteThanks for joining!!