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Booker All Stars! My all-time best Booker dozen.
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- čas přidán 15. 08. 2024
- 539 books have been listed for the Booker Prize, what would make an all time longlist of all the books? Haven't a clue, but these are my choices.
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Of the literary awards that I follow, the Booker is the one that seems to align most with my personal tastes. Was so glad to see you mention some of my favorite winners (The Sense of an Ending; Girl, Woman, Other; Shuggie Bain). Also loved The Promise and the Wolf Hall trilogy. I'm trying to read all the winners, but of course there are hidden gems in the longlists too. So many books, so little time! Love your videos.
Thank you. I quite enjoyed The Promise, obviously not quite as much as the 13 I named, but it's still a really good book and I've shockingly never read Wolf Hall.
There must be some great forgotten gems in the winners waiting for you to discover them. But I know it's so hard to balance New Release books and backlist books.
Love A Five Year Sentence. So original. It should be so much better known.
As I watched this, I was immediately inspired! ❤ You’ll see my version sometime soon. 😊 Ozeki has been on my list for AGES!
Ooo, can't believe how many people are going to do a video based on my idea now! 😍 I'm so pleased Shelly, thank you! I look forward to watching your video too!! 😁
I cannot wait to find out what you pick Shelley.
I'm not saying you'll like Ozeki, but she's very different to my usual taste, so there's hope we might agree.
I am so glad you brought up A Five Year Sentence, it is going on my to read list.
I definitely want to do this but I am not sure I have read thirteen Booker Books. But I will see! There's so many I have been meaning to read for so long.
I hope you love A Five Year Sentence. I'm sure you'll have read way more than 13 when you look at the list, you read lots and varied.
Oh man! Stop adding so many books to my already too long TBR! Great video! Now I am off to find Charlotte’s.
Hahaha, I need to put a TBR movie at the front of my videos.
Oooooo!! I was so looking forward to this! Loved hearing your choices. I also should've acknowledged like you that my choices are all skewed towards the recent stuff because that's generally where I've started with my reading!
I rely on your booktube experience and knowledge to guide me as to whether we ought to come up with a cohesive video title for this tag, or whether we just let it develop organically. As you say, it would be great to see this idea spread and see other booker fans lists!
We had so many in common and many more of your favourites made it to my top 20, Elif Shafak missed out by 1 book.
I have never done the a thing where I've turned somebody else's video into a tag... But as long as they acknowledge your original video that's the important thing.
@@GunpowderFictionPlot yeah we had a lot in common, confirming my long held belief that I can turn to you for the best book recommendations to suit my tastes!
😂😂 The newbies need to be guided! If this ends up doing the rounds as a tag that will be funny! The unintentional booker dozen tag video! 😂
I hope all the Booker nerds do this. Another brilliant video. ❤
Booker nerds assemble! ✊😄
@@EricKarlAnderson yes! This means you!
@@EricKarlAnderson omg I think seeing you do my video idea would be my "booktube" life made!! 😭❤
I so hope you do this Eric, I would be very curious to see your best ever.
@@charlottemolloy I have a feeling that Eric might have done something similar a while ago....but Eric, maybe an updated version would be fun 😄
What a brilliant video!! Only just discovered your channel but I love the way you talked about these books. Thank-you so much 🥰 I have to read some of these now!
Thank you. I hope you enjoy all my favourites. :)
The Sense of an Ending is in my top five books of all time. To round out my Booker All-Stars, I would add the other nominated Julian Barnes novels, Lincoln in the Bardo, and probably the Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall Trilogy. Great video! I hope other Booktubers do it.
Thank you. A few Booktubers have done their versions of it, including Shelly Swearingen, Bookish, Reads and Rereads and Guilty Feat.
I just finished Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies and I kept saying - I can't believe the author was born in 1996! It blew me away. I also loved her play with words and form in the book which I am not sure would be included in an audio version. Just amazing book and totally devastating as well.
I know, I have items of clothes older than Maddie Mortimer. The audiobook for Maps didn't do anything to convey playing with the font size and so on, but I read it as a combo audio and eBook, so I got lucky.
Oh, of course I most want to read A Five Year Sentence, which looks to be well out of print. It sounds like just my thing.
Oh no, it's still possible to get it as an eBpok and an audiobook on Scribd or Kobo.
I loved girl, Woman, Other it was amazing. I've read it 5 times and it is still fresh. A great list. I am going to see if they have any at the library.
5 times! That's amazing!
It's interesting to hear your ultimate favourites. I've read and enjoyed a few booker books but it's not my go to in picking a book.
When your video popped up in my feed and I saw the title, I thought, wow! Great idea for a video. I should make one too. So I felt tagged before even watching it. 😅 And you did an excellent job, as usual. 🤩
I would love to know your beest Booker Dozen, you're so well read I bet I'll find at least 3 or 4 novels I've never heard of in it.
@@GunpowderFictionPlot thanks for the encouragement 🤗
I have read only 2 booker prize winners :The discomfort of evening (2020), The vegetarian and one long listed book Little eyes.
Ooo this was great. Lots of great ones on here that made me do little arm pumps when I saw them
Thank you, glad to make you arm pump. :)
Wonderful video! I love the idea of looking back at past long-listed books. One of my favourites is Lanny by Max Porter
Thank you. Max Porter is such a talented writer, but one I very much need to be in the mood for. I've not read Lanny, but I'm sure it's quality based on his other work.
I disagree with a lot of the choices. Didn't see that coming. 😂
I can only talk about Booker winners here, which I quickly had a look at, so this is my list: Moon Tiger, The God of Small Things, The Sense of an Ending, Lincoln in the Bardo, Milkman, Girl Woman Other, Shuggie Bain. All time favourite is definitely Milkman. Still a lot of winners I'm interested in and which I have to read.
It's a weird list isn't it, maybe because the Booker doesn't usually nominate my favourite books it leaves this quite skewed.
God of Small Thing and Milkman are great books, not read the rest of your list that didn't make it in mine - but those 2 late to be cut.
Summertime is a 2009 novel by South African-born Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee.
What a great video idea! I had a look at the list and it made me realize how few of these books I’ve actually read…and of the books I’ve read, how many I hated. 😅 Also, how mad I still am that Booth is on this list.
Oddly, this makes me want to start a project of reading my way through all of the shortlist selections. Maybe I’ll have to seriously think about doing something like this. I wonder if I’d end up liking more of the books or if I’d be as lukewarm about many of the selections.
OMG - BOOTH! Terrible novel.
I think that sounds like a wonderful project, it would take a long time to complete, but that's kind of nice, you could do a year every 2nd month and take years, it's kind of nice.
❤ great video, and surprisingly I agree with several of your choices- disgrace, a tale for the time being, a sense of an ending, girl woman other, even a fine balance (too long and miserable for my taste but well written) thank you for a fun video!
Thank you. :)
I love this! As soon as I saw Charlotte's video I made my own list which I'll film soon. You and I have three in common. I think you, me and Charlotte have two in common. It'll be interesting as more people do this to see which books get the most nods.
Really looking forward to yours Jennifer!! 😁
I can't wait to see your video Jennifer, see which 3 we have in common.
Omg A Five Year Sentence sounds like my kinda book, thanks so much for putting it on my radar!
Happy reading, enjoy! 🙂
I am currently looking through the Booker list you linked and I have read a grand total of 7 books from the whole entire list - not enough to make a video, I'm afraid! Of those I've read, the ones I loved were My Sister the Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite (2019), The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida - Shehan Karunatilaka (2022) & Small Things Like These - Claire Keegan (2022). I've written down 27 more that I own a copy of that are on my TBR, so lots of reading ahead for me!
27 on your TBR! That's an impressive TBR. :)
@@GunpowderFictionPlot more like never-ending, ever-growing TBR!
Very interesting list, I loved Maps so much, and therefore need to read more of these. I’m still attempting to shun the prize this year though. 😂
After the way the Booker prize treated Maps last year I am not surprised you're shunning it this year
@@GunpowderFictionPlot robbed! Absolutely robbed! Best Booker book ever.
.... and my neverending TBR has dramatically increased in size thanks to you yet again. I don't know if I've read enough of the Booker Prize books to make a video like this. One day I will finally revisit A Tale for the Time Being. Now is definitely not the right time though.
Haha, sorry about that. I was surprised by the number of books I had read that had been Booker nominated outside of the last few years when I've decided to read the longlist.
A Tale for the Time Being is definitely a book for a stoic mood, and I wouldn't want to be reading it if I had a new born.
What a wonderful video! I'm not sure I've read enough of the Booker-listed books to do a video like this, but I adore the idea! Hmmm, maybe I need to comb the list for indie press published books and read those....
Thank you. :)
I would love a best Indie books or even a most interesting sounding indie books attached to the Booker. The wikipedia page makes it very easy to see the publisher too. :)
Wonderful video. I'm almost tempted to try it but choices are so hard 😮 and looking at the list I have read something from every year from 1970 onwards which means a lot to choose from. I might have to read one from the 1969 shortlist to complete the set 😂
Thank you. Maybe you could do a best booker dozen from each decade... That's a very impressive record, I think it's a rule that you have to read a 69 shortlisted novel now.
@@GunpowderFictionPlot I agree got to read a 1969 one. And maybe I could pick two from each decade
That was really enjoyable thanks, and great giving Charlotte a shout as she has some good videos if the background doesn’t make you insanely jealous! You had me going there with the 2nd 2019 book - for a moment I thought the brilliant Ducks was in for a shout! It would be on my list anyway as I have never missed a character from a book so much as after finishing that.
I've never read Ducks Newburyport, so many people love that book, but it just doesn't sound like my thing. I should probably give it a go and see what the fuss is about, but it doesn't seem sensible.
Whenever I watch Charlotte with my wife we end up discussing retiring in Bali and looking up how hard it would be. Very jealous of her location.
You weren’t kidding when you said it had a modern bias!
haha, no I wasn't. It's just about what I've read and transitioning from a classics reader to a new release reader.
I haven’t read many of these but Ozeki and Everisto are fabulous!
No surprise that we agree on Ozeki. 🙂
I love listening to people's personal booker dozen and yours is another amazing list. I'm glad Charlotte started this. I put some of my favourites off the top of my head in the comments on her video. I won't do a video but might do an insta reel. There's so much to choose from amongst the books, my favs are all different to yours.
I really have to read A Fine Balance! And Sense of an Ending! And Home Fires that is sitting beside me glaring at me from my shelves.
I like a lot of young women's writing but I didn't like Normal People, the writing was great but the characters annoyed me. Surprisingly I'm really enjoying the TV series on SBS at the moment. I need to go back to Obioma's book too, started it but other things took over.
I loved Shuggie, beautifully written.
I want to reread No one is talking about this, I was blown away by the second part but skimmed the first part too much. I listened to Maps and thought it was good but didn't rate it that highly, probably another I should try again.
You know, I think one of the things about Sally Rooney is, she is very divisive and we always look for reasons - but like any author there must be people who just don't enjoy her style too. I've never seen the TV series, but if you like that and not the book, maybe it's as simple as her style.
Charlotte is the Booker ideas Queen at the moment.
Oh thank you thank you...this has given me a great idea and I was wondering what to read next and thought the Bernice Rubens A Five Year Sentence sounded good. I've managed to find it on audio and it's fabulous. I'm loving it. It's like Barbara Pym on steriods...
I'm so glad you're enjoying Bernice Rubens. You're right, it has a real Barbara Pym feel to it.
One day I will get around to reading a fine balance. I loved a tale for the time being so much and it is so worthy of all the awards. I don't think I will ever read a brief history of seven killings 😂 Or normal people >.> I will try home fire though, or something by the author. Girl woman other was okay for me, but I'm not sure it was as prize worthy in my eyes as it was to everyone else... I started shuggie bain but had to put it on pause after reading a certain scene too soon after reading know my name 😅 But I will get back to it, hopefully this year. Maps of our spectacular bodies was... well... spectacular!
You're going to love A Fine Balance, not because it's an Olivia book (it's pretty Olivia), but because it's excellent.
I think if you try Kamila Shamsie it should be Home Fire, I read her recent release and it was nice, but not the same standard.
I loved Girl Woman Other at the time of reading it, and I obviously still think it's great - but the more time passes the more I prefer Mr Loverman to it. It's a real shame she hadn't broken through when it was released, because I think it might be considered her best book if that were the case.
Yeah, you definitely need to be in the right mood for Shuggie - I don't cry when I read, but it was a very close thing with Shuggie.
What a great video! My Booker dozen: Margaret Laurence "The Fire Dwellers," Salman Rushdie "Midnight's Children," Muriel Spark "Loitering With Intent," Margaret Atwood "Alias Grace," Peter Carey "True History of the Kelly Gang," David Mitchell "Cloud Atlas," Kazuo Ishiguro "Never Let Me Go," Hilary Mantel "Beyond Black," Marlon James "Brief History of Seven Killings," Ian Mcguire "The Northwater," Colson Whitehead "The Underground Railroad," & Avni Doshi "Burnt Sugar."
What an interesting list, I've not read quite a few, but Burnt Sugar and Never Let Me Go are books I very much enjoyed and of course Marlon James. I was silly enough to watch Alias Grace the TV series before reading the book and it was a good series, but when I got to the book I found it too accurate and it spoiled what would have been an amazing read.
Light Perpetual would have to be on my list. I think about that book more than any other I have ever read.
That's an interesting choice, I know a lot of people really enjoyed that one.
Have you read Bournville? It's very similar in how Light Perpetual uses the lives of a collection of characters to show us how England has changed over the years. Doesn't have the spiritual element to it, which is I imagine at least half the reason you liked LP.
@@GunpowderFictionPlot I’m not a very spiritual person but I did really enjoy that element for the first time in this book but it was how real the characters felt. I just loved the writing so much and I was in the middle of a slump so it came along at just the right time! I haven’t read Bournville but I will add it to my list, thank you!
Such a fun question and great to hear your answers and thoughts on all these! I think I read a Bernice Rubens novel many years ago but your pick sounds so excellent.
Just yesterday I was writing about Rohinton Mistry's Family Matters which was shortlist way back in 2002 - my big question is when is Mistry's next novel coming out?!? It's been over 20 years and all three of his novels have been so celebrated. I wonder why he hasn't brought out anything new or if he's working on a big epic (since his books tend to be very long.)
I'd need to think a lot about what my picks would be though I just reread Iris Murdoch's A Fairly Honourable Defeat which is hardly perfect but so much fun. 📚
5 year sentence is the only Rubens I've read. I need to spend more time reading authors backlist, but it's so hard with so many new releases I want to get to.
When is Misty releasing his 4th book? That is an excellent question ⁉️ I hope we get a 1000 page epic.
Sometimes I'm more in the mood for something fun than something perfect.
Love Shuggie. No one is talking about this 😍I didn’t think that many other people liked it too though 😂
Last book has to be Maps?!!… called it!! Good choice.
Love that you have made this into a tag. I am not sure how interesting mine would be as I have acquired a few books from Bookers past but I rarely seem to read them.
I want to head back to Tan Twan Eng’s backlist as well as Ruth Ozeki (obv).
Commenting whilst feeling super sleepy so hope you can understand my typing.
I loved No One Is Talking About This - such a divisive book, but lots of people are just wrong.
Haha, yes, it had to be Maps. :)
Ooo, Tan Twan Eng is an interesting call, House of Doors was so well written, it's clear he's got talent. That's a good call.
Also, yes, you were perfectly understandable.
Thank you thank you
Thank you.
I'll admit I haven't read many out of that 500+ list but hands down Fingersmith by Sarah Waters. You've piqued my interest on The Five Year Sentence.
I love all the twists and turns in Fingersmtih, it's such a fun read.
I don't think I've really read enough around the Booker to have a list but if I had one it would of course include all the Hilary Mantel!
That's 3 spots sorted! And that's assuming only Wolf Hall got nominated, which I'm not sure it did.
Ruth Ozeki is a Zen Buddhist Nun?!? I had no idea.
Definitely want to do this non-tag.
She's an interesting lady. I would love to find out your 13 books.
I slowed down my speed to make sure I caught everything, I'm pretty sure that counts as a niche booktube compliment 😅
Haha, thank you. That is a great compliment.
this is such a great tag idea!
I still haven't read any Ruth Ozeki (I KNOW!!)
I just started compiling my list and it seems I was a more prolific reader age 10/11 😂 what happened?!
Omg, you need to try Ozeki.
You were reading Booker books when you were 10? 🤯 You must have been a genius child.
@@GunpowderFictionPlot Haha I know right! I was a total book worm. What's gone on since?! Bring back the brains please!!
Charlotte’s videos are picturesque indeed & she often has a soundtrack I’d never heard on 📖tube before 🐓. ☺️ that y’all shout each other out & agree this is an excellent idea .
Ty for another 💎 video ::My take away= Book of Form & Emptiness is the only Ruth O 📖 I’d read 😳, but now = I’m certain it won’t be the last . 📕 🪱 💚
MAIN Take away I should say, as that’s def not allll I got from video . I don’t have edit option ( only delete ) so this is me editing my comment . Blahdiggityblah
Thank you!! I agree how nice is it that we lift each other up! 😁
Yes, her great video ideas are not the only thing unique about Charlotte's channel. 🐓 🐔
I love shouting out Booktubers, I wish I did it more. So many great creators on here.
I hope you love Ruth Ozeki, she's just so talented.
I’ve only read 5 of these - Disgrace and A Fine Balance are high on my list of books I want to get to.
Defo would not have included GWO 😱🤪
I don’t think I’ve read 13 books that I actually liked from the Booker 😂😂
I think I'm in love with your hatred of the Booker - maybe you should make an anti Booker dozen, the 13 most vomitworthy reads.
@@GunpowderFictionPlot 😂😂😂
I’m hoping this will be the year I find loads that I like 🤞🏻😬 if CGAS doesn’t make it I’m going to loose all faith though 😂
why you tell people what they should watch? let them watch what they want :)
I don't believe I did.
Rooney ruined it.😕 This list was way too narrow and full of recency bias. Smug and pompous from start to finish. Oh well.
Do you need a hug?
Wonderful video! I love the idea of looking back at past long-listed books. One of my favourites is Lanny by Max Porter