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1kidzdoc
The longlist for the 2016 Man Booker Prize has just been announced:
Paul Beatty, The Sellout (US)
J.M. Coetzee, The Schooldays of Jesus (South Africa/Australia)
A.L. Kennedy, Serious Sweet (UK)
Deborah Levy, Hot Milk (UK)
Graeme Macrae Burnet, His Bloody Project (UK)
Ian McGuire, The North Water (UK)
David Means, Hystopia (US)
Wyl Menmuir, The Many (UK)
Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen (US)
Virginia Reeves, Work Like Any Other (US)
Elizabeth Strout, My Name Is Lucy Barton (US)
David Szalay, All That Man Is (Canada/UK)
Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing (Canada)
The books by American authors are all available in the US. I bought the Kindle versions of His Bloody Project ($5.99), The North Water ($12.99), Hot Milk ($9.99), and The Many ($7.99), and ordered a "Like New" copy of Do Not Say We Have Nothing from Amazon ($10.88).
From what I can tell the novels by Beatty, Levy, Macrae Burnet, McGuire, Means, Menmuir, Mosfegh, Reeves and Strout have all been published in print or electronic form in the US, and the ones by Coetzee, Kennedy, Szalay and Thien haven't been.
2reconditereader
Interesting list! Do you plan to read all of them?
3kidzdoc
>2 reconditereader: I am planning to read all of them, hopefully before the prize ceremony on October 25th. If I can't do that I would definitely like to get to all of the shortlisted books.
4reconditereader
I found your 75 books challenge thread. Looks fascinating!
5kidzdoc
>4 reconditereader: Thanks!
6amandameale
Any tips so far Darryl??
7kidzdoc
These books were chosen for this year's Booker Prize shortlist last month:
Paul Beatty, The Sellout
Deborah Levy, Hot Milk
Graeme Macrae Burnet, His Bloody Project
Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen
David Szalay, All That Man Is
Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing
>6 amandameale: Amanda, I admittedly lost interest after I started reading the longlist, and hearing comments from LTers who had read them and were less than impressed. If there is one book from the shortlist that everyone has been high on it's Do Not Say We Have Nothing, which I'm currently reading, along with All That Man Is. I've read two of the shortlisted books so far, The Sellout and Hot Milk, and I didn't like either of them, although most people liked the Levy, in particular, more than I did. Reviews of Eileen and His Bloody Project have been mixed.
Overall I'd say it's been a very disappointing year for the Booker.
Paul Beatty, The Sellout
Deborah Levy, Hot Milk
Graeme Macrae Burnet, His Bloody Project
Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen
David Szalay, All That Man Is
Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing
>6 amandameale: Amanda, I admittedly lost interest after I started reading the longlist, and hearing comments from LTers who had read them and were less than impressed. If there is one book from the shortlist that everyone has been high on it's Do Not Say We Have Nothing, which I'm currently reading, along with All That Man Is. I've read two of the shortlisted books so far, The Sellout and Hot Milk, and I didn't like either of them, although most people liked the Levy, in particular, more than I did. Reviews of Eileen and His Bloody Project have been mixed.
Overall I'd say it's been a very disappointing year for the Booker.
8kidzdoc
The Sellout by Paul Beatty is the winner of this year's Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
