222 Days & the Man Booker Prize
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July 30, 2009, 12:00 pm
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It has been 222 days since my last post: I’ve got a new job, a new hair color, a new outlook on life, and will shortly be moving to a new city. I’ve definitely fallen off of the book radar so imagine my surprise while scanning the BBC’s website that it was already that time of year: the Man Booker Prize long list announcement. The Man Booker long list consistently promises phenomenal fiction reads from the UK, Ireland, and the Commonwealth and each year I find a new favorite from this list; last year it was Steve Toltz’s A Fraction of the Whole. The 2009 long list is:
- AS Byatt’s The Children’s Book
- JM Coetzee’s Summertime
- Adam Foulds’ The Quickening Maze
- Sarah Hall’s How to Paint a Dead Man
- Samantha Harvey’s The Wilderness
- James Lever’s Me Cheeta
- Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall
- Simon Mawer’s The Glass Room
- Ed O’Loughlin’s Not Untrue and Not Unkind
- James Scudamore’s Heliopolis
- Colm Toibin’s Brooklyn
- William Trevor’s Love and Summer
- Sarah Water’s The Little Stranger
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Adventures in Reading 
*waves* it’s good to hear from you. This year’s long list looks promising indeed. I’m currently reading The Children’s Book and I’m absolutely adoring it.
Comment by Nymeth July 30, 2009 @ 2:01 pmSo glad to see you back! I’ve read none of these Booker prize prospects so far.
Comment by Jeanne July 30, 2009 @ 9:18 pm