Back in July I posted about the Booker Longlist and the chances of the short list increasing my hit rate for award winning/nominated authors – well the results are in. The short list is:
Joshua Ferris -To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
Richard Flanagan – The Narrow Road to the Deep North
Karen Joy Fowler – We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Howard Jacobson – J
Neel Mukherjee – The Lives of Others
Ali Smith – How to be Both
And it’s good news! I’ve read Karen Joy Fowler’s Jane Austen Book Club, so I’ve read something by one of the authors. This is an improvement on last year when I hadn’t (and still haven’t) read anything by any of the authors on the list. This still means that I can’t predict who’ll win, or converse knowledgeably about the nominees (except to know who’s nominated) but, hey, baby steps, baby steps…
