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For the most and in the main, the best books were the longlist/shortlist nominations - bring 'em on.
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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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Never Let Me Go
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Atonement
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
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A Fine Balance
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Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
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Alias Grace
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Fingersmith
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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
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Room
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3)
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Cat’s Eye
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What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal]
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The Night Watch
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The Children's Book
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Saturday
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Empire of the Sun
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The Sisters Brothers
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The Little Stranger
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Mister Pip
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When We Were Orphans
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On Chesil Beach
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Ian McEwan (Goodreads Author)
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A Little Life
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Hanya Yanagihara (Goodreads Author)
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Arthur & George
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Flaubert's Parrot
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Brooklyn
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Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy, #1)
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Brick Lane
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Number9Dream
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The Stone Diaries
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A Month in the Country
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On Beauty
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Master & Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
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The Satanic Verses
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The Garden of Evening Mists
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Autumn (Seasonal Quartet, #1)
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The Blackwater Lightship
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Family Matters
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The Spinning Heart
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Black Swan Green
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The Glass Room
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Harvest
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Eileen
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Netherland
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Half Blood Blues
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An Artist of the Floating World
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3.78 avg rating — 44,276 ratings
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Shame
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Headlong
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Waterland
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The Master
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The Accidental
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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Harold Fry, #1)
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The Secret Scripture
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English Passengers
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If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
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Fire from Heaven (Alexander the Great, #1)
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How to Be Both
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Quartet in Autumn
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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
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The Butcher Boy
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Morality Play
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Summertime (Scenes from Provincial Life #3)
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The Blazing World
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Black Dogs
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His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae
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Days Without End (Days Without End, #1)
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The Testament of Gideon Mack
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Spies
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History of the Rain
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A Bend in the River
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The Secret River
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Quarantine
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Jamrach's Menagerie
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The Bookshop
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What's Bred in the Bone (Cornish Trilogy, #2)
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Snowdrops
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The Teleportation Accident
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Restoration
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The Comfort of Strangers
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Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
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Love and Summer
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What Was Lost
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How to Be Good
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The Long Song
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Loitering with Intent
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Such a Long Journey
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Mother's Milk
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A Tale for the Time Being
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Amongst Women
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Here's the list of shortlisted books that didn't win: Figures In A Landscape - Barry England
The Impossible Object - Nicholas Moseley
The Nice and the Good - Iris Murdoch
The Public Image - Muriel Spark
From Scenes Like These - GM Williams
John Brown's Body - AL Barker
Eva Trout - Elizabeth Bowen
Bruno's Dream - Iris Murdoch
Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel - William Trevor
The Conjunction - TM Wheeler
The Birds on the Trees - Nina Bawden
The Bay of Noon - Shirley Hazzard
Fire From Heaven - Mary Renault
The Driver's Seat - Muriel Spark
The Vivisector - Patrick White
The Big Chapel - Thomas Kilroy
Briefing For A Descent Into Hell - Doris Lessing
St Urban's Horseman - Mordecai Richler
Goshawk Squadron - Derek Robinson
Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont - Elizabeth Taylor
Bird of Night - Susan Hill
The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith - Thomas Keneally
Pasmore - David Storey
The Dressmaker - Beryl Bainbridge
The Green Equinox - Elizabeth Mavor
The Black Prince - Iris Murdoch
Ending Up - Kingsley Amis
The Bottle Factory Outing - Beryl Bainbridge
In Their Wisdom - CP Snow
Gossip From The Forest - Thomas Keneally
An Instant In The Wind - Andre Brink
Rising - RC Hutchinson
The Doctor's Wife - Brian Moore
Kingfisher Lives - Julian Rathbone
The Children of Dynmouth - William Trevor
Peter Smart's Confessions - Paul Bailey
Great Granny Webster - Caroline Blackwood
Shadows On Our Skin - Jennifer Johnston
The Road To Lichfield - Penelope Lively
Quartet In Autumn - Barbara Pym
Jake's Thing - Kingsley Amis
Rumours of a Rain - Andre Brink
The Bookshop - Penelope Fitzgerald
God On The Rocks - Jane Gardam
A Five Year Sentence - Bernice Rubens
Confederates - Thomas Keneally
A Bend in the River - VS Naipaul
Joseph - Julian Rathbone
Praxis - Fay Weldon
Earthly Powers - Anthony Burgess
A Month In The Country - JL Carr
Clear Light of Day - Anita Desai
The Beggar Maid - Alice Munro
No Country For Young Men - Julia O'Faolain
Pascali's Island - Barry Unsworth
Good Behaviour - Molly Keane
The Sirian Experiments - Doris Lessing
The Comfort of Strangers - Ian McEwan
Rhine Journey - Ann Schlee
Loitering With Intent - Muriel Spark
The White Hotel - DM Thomas
Silence Among The Weapons - John Arden
An Ice-Cream War - William Boyd
Constance or Solitary Practices - Lawrence Durrell
The 27th Kingdom - Alice Thomas Ellis
Sour Sweet - Timothy Mo
Rates of Exchange - Malcolm Bradbury
Flying To Nowhere - John Fuller
The Illusionist - Anita Mason
Shame - Salman Rushdie
Waterland - Graham Swift
Empire of the Sun - JG Ballard
Flaubert's Parrot - Julian Barnes
In Custody - Anita Desai
According To Mark - Penelope Lively
Small World - David Lodge
Illywhacker - Peter Carey
The Battle of Pollock's Crossing - JL Carr
The Good Terrorist - Doris Lessing
Last Letters From Hav - Jan Morris
The Good Apprentice - Iris Murdoch
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Gabriel's Lament - Paul Bailey
What's Bred In The Bone - Robertson Davies
An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro
An Insular Possession - Timothy Mo
Anthills of the Savannah - Chinua Achebe
Chatterton - Peter Ackroyd
Circles of Deceit - Nina Bawden
The Colour of Blood - Brian Moore
The Book and the Brotherhood - Iris Murdoch
Utz - Bruce Chatwin
The Beginning of Spring - Penelope Fitzgerald
Nice Work - David Lodge
The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
The Lost Father - Marina Warner
Cat's Eye - Margaret Atwood
The Book of Evidence - John Banville
Jigsaw - Sybille Bedford
A Disaffection - James Kelman
Restoration - Rose Tremain
An Awfully Big Adventure - Beryl Bainbridge
The Gate of Angels - Penelope Fitzgerald
Amongst Women - John McGahern
Lies of Silence - Brian Moore
Solomon Gursky Was Here - Mordechai Richler
Time's Arrow - Martin Amis
The Van - Roddy Doyle
Such A Long Journey - Rohinton Mistry
The Redundancy of Courage - Timothy Mo
Reading Turgenev - William Trevor
Serenity House - Christopher Hope
The Butcher Boy - Patrick McCabe
Black Dogs - Ian McEwan
Daughters of the House - Michele Roberts
Under The Frog - Tibor Fischer
Scar Tissue - Michael Ignatieff
Remembering Babylon - David Malouf
Crossing The River - Caryl Phillips
The Stone Diaries - Carol Shields
Reef - Romesh Gunesekara
Paradise - Abdulrazak Gurnah
The Folding Star - Alan Hollinghurst
Beside the Ocean of Time - George Mackay Brown
Knowledge of Angels - Jill Paton Walsh
In Every Face I Meet - Justin Cartwright
Morality Play - Barry Unsworth
The Moor's Last Sigh - Salman Rushdie
The Riders - Tim Winton
Alias Grace - Margaret Atwood
Every Man For Himself - Beryl Bainbridge
Reading In The Dark - Seamus Deane
The Orchard On Fire - Shena Mackay
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
Quarantine - Jim Crace
The Underground Man - Mick Jackson
Grace Notes - Bernard McLaverty
Europa - Tim Parks
The Essence of the Thing - Madelaine St John
Master Georgie - Beryl Bainbridge
England, England - Julian Barnes
Industry of Souls - Martin Booth
Breakfast on Pluto - Patrick McCabe
The Restraint of Beasts - Magnus Mills
Fasting, Feasting - Anita Desai
Headlong - Michael Frayn
Our Fathers - Andrew O'Hagan
The Map of Love - Ahdaf Soueif
The Blackwater Lightship - Colm Tóibín
The Hiding Place - Trezza Azzopardi
The Keepers of Truth - Michael Collins
When We Were Orphans - Kazuo Ishiguro
English Passengers - Matthew Kneale
The Deposition of Father McGreevy - Brian O'Doherty
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Oxygen - Andrew Miller
Number9Dream - David Mitchell
The Dark Room - Rachel Seiffert
Hotel World - Ali Smith
Family Matters - Rohinton Mistry
Unless - Carol Shields
The Story of Lucy Gault - William Trevor
Fingersmith - Sarah Waters
Dirt Music - Tim Winton
Brick Lane - Monica Ali
Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
The Good Doctor - Damon Galgut
Notes On A Scandal - Zoë Heller
Astonishing Splashes of Colour - Clare Morrall
Bitter Fruit - Achmat Dangor
The Electric Michelangelo - Sarah Hall
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Master - Colm Tóibín
I'll Go To Bed At Noon - Gerard Woodward
Arthur and George - Julian Barnes
A Long Long Way - Sebastian Barry
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
The Accidental - Ali Smith
On Beauty - Zadie Smith
The Secret River - Kate Grenville
Carry Me Down - M.J. Hyland
In the Country of Men - Hisham Matar
Mother's Milk - Edward St Aubyn
The Night Watch - Sarah Waters
Darkmans - Nicola Barker
The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Mohsin Hamid
Mister Pip - Lloyd Jones
On Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan
Animal's People - Indra Sinha
The Secret Scripture - Sebastian Barry
Sea of Poppies - Amitav Ghosh
The Clothes on Their Backs - Linda Grant
The Northern Clemency - Philip Hensher
A Fraction of the Whole - Steve Toltz
The Children's Book - A.S. Byatt
Summertime - J.M. Coetzee
The Quickening Maze - Adam Foulds
The Glass Room - Simon Mawer
The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters
...and, since the longlists were first published in 2001, these have been longlisted:According to Queeney - Beryl Bainbridge
If the Invader Comes - Derek Beaven
A Son of War - Melvyn Bragg
Shamrock Tea - Ciaran Carson
The Element of Water - Stevie Davies
The Pickup - Nadine Gordimer
Dogside Story - Patricia Grace
By the Sea - Abdulrazak Gurnah
How to be Good - Nick Hornby
Wolfy and the Strudelbakers - Zvi Jagendorf
Translated Accounts - James Kelman
The Blue Tango - Eoin McNamee
Fairness - Ferdinand Mount
Half a Life - VS Naipaul
The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman
The Death of Vishnu - Manil Suri
The Stone Carvers - Jane Urquhart
The Leto Bundle - Marina Warner
The Strange Case of Dr. Simmonds & Dr. Glas - Dannie Abse
Shroud - John Banville
Critical Injuries - Joan Barfoot
Any Human Heart - William Boyd
The Next Big Thing - Anita Brookner
Peacetime - Robert Edric
Spies - Michael Frayn
Still Here - Linda Grant
The Mulberry Empire - Philip Hensher
Who's Sorry Now? - Howard Jacobson
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things - Jon McGregor
Dorian - Will Self
The Autograph Man - Zadie Smith
To The Last City - Colin Thubron
Yellow Dog - Martin Amis
Turn Again Home - Carol Birch
Crossing the Lines - Melvyn Bragg
Elizabeth Costello - JM Coetzee
The Taxi Driver's Daughter - Julia Darling
Schopenhauer's Telescope - Gerard Donovan
The Romantic - Barbara Gowdy
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
The Nick of Time - Francis King
Heligoland - Shena Mackay
Jazz etc. - John Murray
Something Might Happen - Julie Myerson
Judge Savage - Tim Parks
A Distant Short - Caryl Phillips
Waxwings - Jonathan Raban
The Light of Day - Graham Swift
Frankie & Stankie - Barbara Trapido
Purple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Maps for Lost Lovers - Nadeem Aslam
Clear: A Transparent Novel - Nicola Barker
The Island Walkers - John Bemrose
Havoc, in its Third Year - Ronan Bennett
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell - Susanna Clarke
Always the Sun - Neil Cross
Becoming Strangers - Louise Deam
A Blade of Grass - Lewis Desoto
Cooking with Fernet Branca - James Hamilton-Paterson
The Honeymoon - Justin Haythe
The Great Fire - Shirley Hazzard
Sixty Lights - Gail Jones
The Unnumbered - Sam North
Snowleg - Nicholas Shakespeare
Cherry - Matt Thorne
The Harmony Silk Factory - Tash Aw
Slow Man - JM Coetzee
In the Fold - Rachel Cusk
All For Love - Dan Jacobson
A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian - Marina Lewycka
Beyond Black - Hilary Mantel
Saturday - Ian McEwan
The People's Act of Love - James Meek
Shalimar The Clown - Salman Rushdie
This Thing of Darkness - Harry Thompson
This Is The Country - William Wall
Theft: A Love Story - Peter Carey
Gathering the Water - Robert Edric
Get a Life - Nadine Gordimer
Kalooki Nights - Howard Jacobson
Seven Lies - James Lasdun
The Other Side of the Bridge - Mary Lawson
So Many Ways To Begin - Jon McGregor
The Emperor’s Children - Claire Messud
Black Swan Green - David Mitchell
The Perfect Man - Naeem Murr
Be Near Me - Andrew O'Hagan
The Testament of Gideon Mack - James Robertson
The Ruby in Her Navel - Barry Unsworth
Self Help - Edward Docx
The Gift of Rain - Tantan Eng
The Welsh Girl - Peter Ho Davies
Gifted - Nikita Lalwani
What Was Lost - Catherine O'Flynn
Consolation - Michael Redhill
Winnie & Wolf - AN Wilson
Girl in a Blue Dress - Gaynor Arnold
From A to X - John Berger
The Lost Dog - Michelle de Kretser
A Case of Exploding Mangoes - Mohammad Hanif
Netherland - Joseph O'Neill
The Enchantress Of Florence - Salman Rushdie
Child 44 - Tom Rob Smith
How to Paint a Dead Man - Sarah Hall
The Wilderness - Samantha Harvey
Me Cheeta - James Lever
Not True & Not Unkind - Ed O'Loughlin
Heliopolis - James Scudamore
Brooklyn - Colm Toibin
Love and Summer - William Trevor
The Hand Reared Boy - Brian Aldiss
Trespasses - Paul Bailey
A Little of What You Fancy - HE Bates
A Place In England - Melvyn Bragg
Down All The Days - Christy Brown
Bomber - Len Deighton
The Circle - Elaine Feinstein
A Clubbable Woman - Reginald Hill
I'm The King of the Castle - Susan Hill
A Domestic Animal - Francis King
Out of the Shelter - David Lodge
A Fairly Honourable Defeat - Iris Murdoch
Fireflies - Shiva Naipaul
Master and Commander - Patrick O'Brian
A Guilty Thing Surprised - Ruth Rendell
Yay - thanks for the lists, you are a gent.:O)
I guess Claire Messud is one of those shapeshifters who goes back and forth between being American, Canadian, British, and French whenever the mood suits her?Guardian, 2003: "Whether mischievously or incompetently, publishers submitted a number of authors who weren't eligible, three of whom would have been strong contenders. Claire Messud holds three passports, none of them British."
I guess we can now add this year's losers to the list!Parrot and Olivier in America - Peter Carey
Room - Emma Donoghue
The Betrayal - Helen Dunmore
In A Strange Room - Damon Galgut
The Long Song - Andrea Levy
C - Tom McCarthy
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet - David Mitchell
February - Lisa Moore
Skippy Dies - Paul Murray
Trespass - Rose Tremain
The Slap - Christos Tsiolkas
The Stars In The Bright Sky - Alan Warner
Well done Phillip - you keep ua all shipshape and Bristol fashion here. Not a good year for the Booker shortlist.
The losing longlistees from 2011...On Canaan’s Side - Sebastian Barry
Jamrach's Menagerie - Carol Birch
The Sisters Brothers - Patrick DeWitt
Half Blood Blues - Esi Eduygen
A Cupboard Full of Coats - Yvette Edwards
The Stranger's Child - Alan Hollinghurst
Pigeon English - Stephen Kelman
The Last Hundred Days - Patrick McGuinness
Snowdrops - AD Miller
Far to Go - Alison Pick
The Testament of Jessie Lamb - Jane Rogers
Derby Day - DJ Taylor
Great job Bettie and Phillip, keep going keep going.
2012's losing longlistees: Nicola Barker - The Yips
Ned Beauman - The Teleportation Accident
Andre Brink - Philida
Tan Twan Eng - The Garden of Evening Mists
Michael Frayn - Skios
Rachel Joyce - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Deborah Levy - Swimming Home
Alison Moore - The Lighthouse
Will Self - Umbrella
Jeet Thayil - Narcopolis
Sam Thompson - Communion Town
Phillip wrote: "2012's losing longlistees: Nicola Barker - The Yips
Ned Beauman - The Teleportation Accident
Andre Brink - Philida
Tan Twan Eng - The Garden of Evening Mists
Michael Frayn - Skios
Rachel Joyce ..."
Phil - you ARE the Bee's Knees - thanks for updating. Soon be time for the next ones to fall off the trees
:O)
Thanks, Bettie! Yes, the years seem to whizz by faster and faster. So many of these I meant to read but haven't or didn't.
Phillip wrote: "Thanks, Bettie! Yes, the years seem to whizz by faster and faster. So many of these I meant to read but haven't or didn't."
The years do fly by, non-readers don't seem to notice it as much, do they! They talk about stress here and stress there but they know NOTHING if they haven't tried to keep up with the award lists, the TBR mountains, and that burgeoning pile of Must Re-read Or Bust items.
I never knew I owned so many Booker Prize nominees... 71 of them, no less. And I haven't even counted the winners, as they are not part of this list.
#170 The Transit of Venus - I can't find any evidence it was longlisted or shortlisted for the Booker.
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