About this Challenge
The Man Booker Prize “promotes the finest in fiction by rewarding the very best book of the year.” It is awarded in Autumn after an announcement of first the longlisted titles and then the six shortlisted titles. I’m attempting to read all the winners since the award’s inception – and where I can, some of the longlisted and shortlisted books.
Progress so far:
Winning novels read to date: 17 (all with **). This includes books read before this challenge began in February 2012.
2012: Longlist
Skios (Michael Frayn) ** My review is posted here
Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Rachel Joyce) ** My review is posted here
Snowdrops by A D Miller. Review is posted here
Winners 21st century
2012 - Bring Up the Bodies (Hilary Mantel) **. My review is posted here
2011 - The Sense of an Ending (Barnes) **
2010 - The Finkler Question (Jacobson)
2009 - Wolf Hall (Mantel) **
2008 - The White Tiger (Adiga) ** My review is posted here
2007 - The Gathering (Enright)
2006 - The Inheritance of Loss (Desai)
2005 - The Sea (Banville)
2004 - The Line of Beauty (Hollinghurst)
2003 - Vernon God Little (Pierre)
2002 - Life of Pi (Martel)
2001 - True History of the Kelly Gang (Carey
2000 - The Blind Assassin (Atwood) **
Winners 2oth century
1999 - Disgrace (Coetzee)
1998 - Amsterdam: A Novel (McEwan) **
1997 - The God of Small Things
1996 - Last Orders (Swift)
1995 - The Ghost Road (Barker)
1994 - How Late It Was, How Late (Kelman)
1993 - Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha (Doyle)
1992 - The English Patient (Ondaatje)
1992 - Sacred Hunger (Unsworth)
1991 - The Famished Road (Okri)
1990 - Possession: A Romance (Byatt)** Re-Read Jan 2012. review here
1989 - The Remains of the Day (Ishiguro) **
1988 - Oscar and Lucinda (Carey)
1987 - Moon Tiger (Lively)
1986 - The Old Devils (Amis)
1985 - The Bone People (Hulme)
1984 - Hotel Du Lac (Brookner) **
1983 - Life & Times of Michael K (Coetzee)
1982 - Schindler’s Ark (Keneally) **
1981 - Midnight’s Children (Rushdie) ** Read my Review here
1980 - Rites of Passage (Golding)
1979 - Offshore (Penelope Fitzgerald)**. Read my Review Here
1978 - The Sea, the Sea (Murdoch)
1976 - Saville (Storey)** My Review is posted here
1975 - Heat and Dust (Jhabvala)
1974 - The Conservationist (Gordimer)
1973 - Holiday (Middleton) ** Read May 2013.
1972 - G. (Berger)
1971 – In A Free State (Naipul)** My Review is Here
1970 - The Elected Member (Rubens) ** My Review is here
1969 - Something to Answer For (Newby) ** My review is posted here
Useful Links
- Man Booker Prize - official website for the award
- Archive of the prize winners can be found here: http://www.themanbookerprize.com/prize/archive
- The Complete Booker blog site with reviews written by bloggers http://completebooker.blogspot.co.uk
Did you enjoy Wolf Hall? I loved it. My mother hated it. I can’t wait to get started on the sequel.
I did enjoy it – the opening sequence where Cromwell is a young boy being beaten by his drunken father was very powerful. Part of the power came from the way Mantel uses the present tense so you feel that you, the reader, are living through the same experience. She also writes from the perspective of being inside Cromwell’s consciousness which gives the narrative impact.
I can see why some people didn’t like it though – there are times when its confusing who is actually doing what and of course there are lots of characters to remember. I want to re-read it because I’m sure I missed some things first time around Karen Heenan-Davies
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