The 2019 Booker Prize Longlist – Reaction!

It’s finally been announced! I chat about the books listed for this year’s Booker Prize - thoughts & mixed feelings about the group of books as a whole. What do you think? Comment below and click ‘Show More’ for info and links.

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Shortlist announced: September 3
Winner announced: October 14

Elif Shafak on Turkey’s war on free-speech:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jul/15/elif-shafak-books-writers-academics-women-hostility-erdogan-turkey

My video on the announcement of Atwood's The HandMaid's Tale sequel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB6eEJm7I3I&t=1s

The 13 #BookerPrize2019 longlisted novels:

Margaret Atwood (Canada), The Testaments
https://www.bookdepository.com/Testaments-Margaret-Atwood/9781784742324/?a_aid=lonesomereader
Kevin Barry (Ireland), Night Boat to Tangier
https://www.bookdepository.com/Night-Boat-Tangier-Kevin-Barry/9781782116172/?a_aid=lonesomereader
Oyinkan Braithwaite (UK/Nigeria), My Sister, The Serial Killer
https://www.bookdepository.com/My-Sister-Serial-Killer-Oyinkan-Braithwaite/9781786495976/?a_aid=lonesomereader
Lucy Ellmann (USA/UK), Ducks, Newburyport
https://www.bookdepository.com/Ducks-Newburyport-Lucy-Ellmann/9781910296967/?a_aid=lonesomereader
Bernardine Evaristo (UK), Girl, Woman, Other
https://www.bookdepository.com/Girl-Woman-Other-Bernardine-Evaristo/9780241364901/?a_aid=lonesomereader
John Lanchester (UK), The Wall
https://www.bookdepository.com/The-Wall-John-Lanchester/9781528847452/?a_aid=lonesomereader
Deborah Levy (UK), The Man Who Saw Everything
https://www.bookdepository.com/Man-Who-Saw-Everything-Deborah-Levy/9780241268025/?a_aid=lonesomereader
Valeria Luiselli (Mexico/Italy), Lost Children Archive
https://www.bookdepository.com/Lost-Children-Archive-Valeria-Luiselli/9780008290023/?a_aid=lonesomereader
Chigozie Obioma (Nigeria), An Orchestra of Minorities
https://www.bookdepository.com/Orchestra-Minorities-Chigozie-Obioma/9781408710807/?a_aid=lonesomereader
Max Porter (UK), Lanny
https://www.bookdepository.com/Lanny-Max-Porter/9780571340286/?a_aid=lonesomereader
Salman Rushdie (UK/India), Quichotte
https://www.bookdepository.com/Quichotte-Salman-Rushdie/9781787331921/?a_aid=lonesomereader
Elif Shafak (UK/Turkey), 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
https://www.bookdepository.com/10-Minutes-38-Seconds-this-Strange-World-Elif-Shafak/9780241293867/?a_aid=lonesomereader
Jeanette Winterson (UK), Frankissstein
https://www.bookdepository.com/Frankissstein-Jeanette-Winterson/9781787331419/?a_aid=lonesomereader

Other books mentioned:
A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride:
http://lonesomereader.com/blog/2014/4/7/a-girl-is-a-half-formed-thing-by-eimear-mcbride
You Will Be Safe Here by Damian Barr:
http://lonesomereader.com/blog/2019/3/31/you-will-be-safe-here-by-damian-barr
The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal:
http://lonesomereader.com/blog/2019/5/5/the-doll-factory-by-elizabeth-macneal
Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Beatlebone by Kevin Barry:
http://lonesomereader.com/blog/2015/11/20/beatlebone-by-kevin-barry
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter:
http://lonesomereader.com/blog/2015/9/11/grief-is-the-thing-with-feathers-by-max-porter
Three Daughters of Eve by Elif Shafak:
http://lonesomereader.com/blog/2017/1/30/three-daughters-of-eve-by-elif-shafak
Don Quixote by Cervantes
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley:
http://lonesomereader.com/blog/?category=Mary+Shelley
Spring by Ali Smith
The Nickle Boys by Colson Whitehead

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