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Explore the very best of contemporary fiction with the Booker Prize Reading Club! 🌍📖💬
If you're passionate about literature, looking to explore some of the most captivating novels from the UK and Ireland, or just want to give your reading habits a kick up the backside.. then join us on a literary journey through the books that made the cut for Booker Prize contention.
Why Join The Booker Reading Club?
- Discover Great Novels: Read and discuss the novels that were handpicked by the Booker Prize judges.
- Engaging Conversations: Have rich discussions, explore various narratives, and share perspectives with fellow book enthusiasts.
- Connect with Like-Minded Souls: Forge new friendships, share insights, and deepen your appreciation for literature in a warm and welcoming community
📆 How does it work?
Generally the schedule is to read one book (drawn from Booker contenders over the last decade) per month through to the end of July when the annual Booker Prize Longlist is announced. We then take it up a notch by reading all the longlisted books to finish in time for the award ceremony in early November. You're of course free to read just the ones you like or can manage.
🌐 Zoom meetings: Join from anywhere. The book discussions will be online.
Upcoming events (3)
See all- 'Real Life' by Brandon TaylorLink visible for attendees
Join us to discuss this Booker Prize shortlister from 2020.
Brandon Taylor’s deeply affecting story about the emotional cost of reckoning with desire and overcoming pain, which deftly zooms in and out of focus.
His father died a few weeks ago, but Wallace didn’t go back for the funeral, and he hasn’t told any of his friends. Instead, Wallace has spent all summer in the lab breeding a strain of microscopic worms. Self-preservation requires distance. Over the course of one end-of-summer weekend, however, the destruction of his work and a series of confrontations force Wallace to grapple with both the trauma of the past and the question of the future.
Purchase links:
>> Amazon
>> Bookshop.org (indy sellers) - 'Girl, Woman, Other' by Bernardine EvaristoLink visible for attendees
Join us to discuss this Booker Winner for 2019.
Also, one of Goodreads Most Popular Books of the Past Decade.
With vivid originality, irrepressible wit and sly wisdom, Bernardine Evaristo presents a gloriously new kind of history for this old country.
Welcome to Britain and twelve very different people - mostly women, mostly Black - who call it home. Teeming with life and crackling with energy, Girl, Woman, Other follows them across the miles and down the years, through different generations and social classes, in this ever-dynamic, ever-expanding and utterly irresistible novel of our times.
Purchase links:
>> Amazon
>> Bookshop.org (indy sellers) - '10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World' by Elif ShafakLink visible for attendees
Join us to discuss this Booker Prize shortlister from 2019.
An intensely beautiful and haunting novel from Elif Shafak about the wonder of life, the mystery of death and the strange space in between.
For Leila, each minute after her death brings a sensuous memory: the taste of spiced goat stew, sacrificed by her father to celebrate the long-awaited birth of a son; the bubbling vats of lemon and sugar women use to wax their legs while men attend mosque; the scent of cardamom coffee that Leila shares with a handsome student in the brothel where she works. Each memory, too, recalls the friends she made at each key moment in her life – friends who are now desperately trying to find her.
Purchase links:
>> Amazon
>> Bookshop.org (indy sellers)
