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Dive into the World of Contemporary Fiction with the Booker Prize Shortlist 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 the Booker Prize Shortlist.
Why Join The Booker Longlist 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
📆 What's the Commitment?
There is none. I'll be aiming for one book a week to try stay close to the winner announcement. It's admittedly a bit of a pace but there's no pressure to do this. Pick one or more of the readings that you like and suits your schedule.
🌐 Zoom meetings: Join from anywhere. The book discussions will be online.
Bevorstehende Events (4)
Alles ansehen- 'Oh William!' by Elizabeth StroutLink für Teilnehmer sichtbar
Booker Shortlister from 2022
Bestselling author Elizabeth Strout returns to her beloved heroine Lucy Barton in a luminous novel about love, loss, and the family secrets that can erupt and bewilder us at any time.
Lucy Barton is a successful writer living in New York, navigating the second half of her life as a recent widow and parent to two adult daughters. A surprise encounter leads her to reconnect with William, her first husband - and longtime, on-again/off-again friend and confidante.
Recalling their college years, the birth of their daughters, the painful dissolution of their marriage, and the lives they built with other people, Strout weaves a portrait, stunning in its subtlety, of a tender, complex, decades-long partnership.
>> You can also join and discuss this reading on Bookhive.
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- 'The Year of the Runaways' by Sunjeev SahotaLink für Teilnehmer sichtbar
Booker Shortlister from 2015
Sunjeev Sahota's brilliant political novel explores the dreams and struggles of an unlikely household in a warm celebration of the human spirit.
Thirteen young men live in a house in Sheffield, each in flight from India and in desperate search of a new life. Tarlochan, a former rickshaw driver, will say nothing about his past in Bihar; Avtar has a secret that binds him to protect the chaotic Randeep. As for Randeep, he has a visa-wife in a flat on the other side of town: a clever, devout woman whose cupboards are full of her husband's clothes, in case the immigration men surprise her with a call.
>> You can also join and discuss this reading on Bookhive.
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- 'The Overstory' by Richard PowersLink für Teilnehmer sichtbar
Booker Shortlister from 2018
Richard Powers’ radical and remarkable novel. Nine strangers are each summoned in different ways by the natural world to save it from catastrophe.
The Overstory unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fable, ranging from antebellum New York to the late-20th-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond, revealing a world alongside our own: vast, slow, resourceful, magnificently inventive and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world, and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.
>> You can also join and discuss this reading on Bookhive.
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- 'Ducks, Newburyport' by Lucy EllmannLink für Teilnehmer sichtbar
Booker Shortlister from 2019
Lucy Ellmann’s scorching indictment of America’s barbarity, past and present, and a lament for a world sleepwalking into environmental disaster.
Latticing one cherry pie after another, an Ohio housewife tries to bridge the gaps between reality and the torrent of meaningless info that is the United States of America. She worries about her children, her dead parents, African elephants, the bedroom rituals of ‘happy couples’, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and how to hatch an abandoned wood pigeon egg.
>> You can also join and discuss this reading on Bookhive.
>> Get the book! If you're getting the book from Amazon then you can support this group by using this Amazon affiliate link :)