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.: A Year of Reading :.


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Complete Booker

Titles in bold have been read.
Current progress: 15/45 = 1/3 complete!

2011 The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
2010 The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
2009 Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
2008 The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
2007 The Gathering by Anne Enright
2006 The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
2005 The Sea by John Banville

2004 The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst
2003 Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
2002 Life of Pi by Yann Martel
2001 True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey
2000 The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
1999 Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
1998 Amsterdam: A Novel by Ian McEwan
1997 The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
1996 Last Orders by Graham Swift
1995 The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
1994 How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman
1993 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
1992 The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (co-winner)
1992 Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth (co-winner)
1991 The Famished Road by Ben Okri
1990 Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt
1989 The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
1988 Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
1987 Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
1986 The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis
1985 The Bone People by Keri Hulme
1984 Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner
1983 Life & Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee
1982 Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
1981 Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
1980 Rites of Passage by William Golding
1979 Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald
1978 The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch
1977 Staying on by Paul Scott
1976 Saville by David Storey
1975 Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
1974 The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer
1974 Holiday by Stanley Middleton
1973 The Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell
1972 G. by John Berger
1971 In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul
1970 The Elected Member by Bernice Rubens
1969 Something to Answer For by P. H. Newby

Shortlist titles I've read:
2011
The Sense of an Ending
Jamrach's Menagerie
Snowdrops
Pigeon English
The Sisters Brothers
Half Blood Blues
2010
Room
2009
The Little Stranger
2008
The Secret Scripture
2007
On Chesil Beach
2005
Never Let Me Go
On Beauty
2003
Oryx and Crake
2002
Unless
2001
Atonement
1996
Alias Grace
1993
The Stone Diaries
1989
Cat's Eye
1986
The Handmaid's Tale

Longlist titles I've read:
2009
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
2008
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
2007
What Was Lost by Catherine O'Flynn
2004
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2003
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

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