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2014 Shortlist Announced for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction

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The Man Booker Prize has announced its shortlist! The longlist is now whittled down to just six titles.

In the announcement they said, “One previous winner, one thrice-shortlisted novelist, one Australian, two US authors and five imprints. This is what makes up the shortlist for this year’s Man Booker Prize for Fiction,.”

The shortlist is:

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  • To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris
  • The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
  • J by Howard Jacobson
  • The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee
  • We are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
  • How to be Both by Ali Smith

I currently have five of the titles on the shortlist and have already read two, so you can guess what my next three books are right?… happy reading all!

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To Rise Again At A Decent Hour – Booker Prize Longlist

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imageLast night (or more accurately, in the wee hours of this morning), I was woken by a police helicopter. I immediately, tired and annoyed, reached for my phone and updated my status on good old Facebook:

Then turned and saw the title of my current read, To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris. Two hours later, I was still hoping…
#LifeImitatingBookTitles

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The Booker Prize Longlist – Karen Joy Fowler

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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler

Sitting, reading on the bus, I laughed out loud. The man sitting next to me shifted and then changed seats. 🙂 I’m not mad… honest! 😉

So it begins – my attempt to read as many books as I can, from the Man Booker Prize for Fiction’s 2014 longlist, before the winner is announced. Only 12 books and 8/9ths of a book to go! Wish me luck. Xx

Jammie x

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The Man Booker Prize For Fiction 2014

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2014 Longlist Announced

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The Man Booker Prize has announced its longlist! I love this time. I have a fantasy that I’ll manage to read all of them before the winner is announced – I never quite manage it! ‘Hats off’ to the judges… I would love to stay in bed reading through.

It’s the first Man Booker Prize to admit novels from across the globe as long as they are written in English. The six judges chaired by philosopher Anthony Grayling have chosen 13 books by four Americans, six Britons, two Irish writers and one Australian.

And the longlist is…

  • To Rise Again at a Decent Hour, Joshua Ferris (Viking)
  • The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan (Chatto & Windus)
  • We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler (Serpent’s Tail)
  • The Blazing World, Siri Hustvedt (Sceptre)
  • J,  Howard Jacobson (Jonathan Cape)
  • The Wake, Paul Kingsnorth (Unbound)
  • The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell (Sceptre)
  • The Lives of Others, Neel Mukherjee (Chatto & Windus)
  • Us, David Nicholls (Hodder & Stoughton)
  • The Dog, Joseph O’Neill (Fourth Estate)
  • Orfeo, Richard Powers (Atlantic Books)
  • How to be Both, Ali Smith (Hamish Hamilton)
  • History of the Rain, Niall Williams (Bloomsbury)

Happy reading, Booker fiends!

You can find out more about the books and authors on the website:
http://www.themanbookerprize.com/news/longlist-2014-announced