Tonight, the winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize (also known as the Booker Prize) will be announced. This prestigious award is only open to novelists who are citizens of the British Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland. Novels on this year’s short list are:
Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture
Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies
Linda Grant, The Clothes on Their Backs
Philip Hensher, The Northern Clemency
Steve Toltz, A Fraction of the Whole
Have you read any of these novels? Sad to say, I haven’t read one of them; however, I tend more toward nonfiction.
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Sea of Poppies has been sitting on my stack of to-reads for a bit. Since I just finished the rather silly but incredibly endearing The Book Stops Here (the third in Ian Sansom’s Mobile Library mystery series) last night, perhaps I’ll slot Sea into the pack I’m already reading. And for anybody in search of a good bit of fun UK-related reading, I recommend the Sansom series. They’re sweet.
Thanks for that rec, Jenna — love mysteries. I’m ordering Sea of Poppies, too, after reading a Guardian review — sounds right up my alley. Do you read several novels at once?