Booker Prize
The Man Booker Prize aims to promote the finest in fiction by rewarding the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland.
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The testaments2019
Summary: "In this brilliant sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, acclaimed author Margaret Atwood answers the questions that have tantalized readers for decades. When the van door slammed on Offred's future at the... more »- place hold (0)
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Lincoln in the bardo : a novel2017
Summary: Set over the course of that one night and populated by ghosts of the recently passed and the long dead, Lincoln in the Bardo is a thrilling exploration of death, grief, the powers of good and evil, a... more »- place hold (0)
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The schooldays of Jesus2016
Summary: From the Nobel Prize-winning author J. M. Coetzee, the haunting sequel to The Childhood of Jesus, continuing the journey of David, Simon, and Ines. "When you travel across the ocean on a boat, all... more »- place hold (0)
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Eileen2016
Summary: The Christmas season offers little cheer for Eileen Dunlop, an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father|s caretaker in a home whose squalor is the talk of... more »- place hold (0)
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Do not say we have nothing : a novel2016
Summary: "In a single year, my father left us twice. The first time, to end his marriage, and the second, when he took his own life. I was ten years old." Master storyteller Madeleine Thien takes us inside... more »- place hold (0)
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The year of the runaways2016
Summary: The lives of three young men, and one unforgettable woman, intertwine over the course of one year after they immigrate from India to Sheffield, England.- place hold (0)
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My name is Lucy Barton : a novel2016
Summary: "Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn't spoken for many years, comes to see her. Gentle gossip about people from Lucy's... more »- place hold (0)
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The Sellout2015
Summary: A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction Named one of the best books of 2015 by The New York Times Book Review and the Wall Street Journal A biting satire about a young man; s... more »EBOOK
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The fishermen : a novel2015
Summary: "Told from the point of view of nine-year-old Benjamin, the youngest of four brothers, The Fishermen is the Cain and Abel-esque story of an unforgettable childhood in 1990s Nigeria, in the small town... more »- place hold (0)
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Did you ever have a family2015
Summary: "On the eve of her daughter's wedding, June Reid's life is completely devastated when a shocking disaster takes the lives of her daughter, her daughter's fiance, her ex-husband, and her boyfriend,... more »- place hold (0)
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The green road2015
Summary: "Spanning thirty years, The Green Road tells the story of Rosaleen, matriarch of the Madigans, a family on the cusp of either coming together or falling irreparably apart."--Dust jacket flap.- place hold (0)
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Satin Island : a novel2015
Summary: "When we first meet U., the narrator of SATIN ISLAND, he is sitting in the airport at Turin, caught in a delay caused by a rogue airplane. Like everyone else in the waiting area, he is sifting... more »- place hold (0)
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The blazing world : a novel2014
Summary: "When Professor Hess stumbles across an unusual letter to the editor in an art journal, he is surprised to have known so little about the brilliant and mysterious artist it describes, the late... more »- place hold (0)
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The narrow road to the deep north2014
Summary: "A novel of love and war that traces the life of one man--an Australian surgeon--from a prisoner-of-war camp on the Thai-Burma Death Railway during World War II, up to the present"--- place hold (0)
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J : a novel2014
Summary: "In a world where the past is a dangerous country, not to be talked about or visited, J is a love story of incomparable strangeness, both tender and terrifying. After the devastation of WHAT... more »- place hold (0)
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A brief history of seven killings2014
Summary: "From the acclaimed writer of The Book of Night Women comes a masterful novel framed as a fictional oral history that explores the events and characters surrounding the attempted assassination of Bob... more »- place hold (0)
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Lila2014
Summary: Abandoning her homeless existence to become a minister's wife, Lila reflects on her hardscrabble life on the run with a canny young drifter and her efforts to reconcile her painful past with her husband's gentle Christian worldview.- place hold (0)
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The bone clocks : a novel2014
Summary: A vast, intricate novel that weaves six narratives and spans from 1984 to the 2030s about a secret war between a cult of soul-decanters and a small group of vigilantes called the Night Shift who try... more »- place hold (0)
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To rise again at a decent hour : a novel2014
Summary: "Paul O'Rourke is a man made of contradictions: he loves the world, but doesn't know how to live in it. He's a Luddite addicted to his iPhone, a dentist with a nicotine habit, a rabid Red Sox fan... more »- place hold (0)
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We are all completely beside ourselves2013
Summary: Coming of age in middle America, eighteen-year-old Rosemary evaluates how her entire youth was defined by the presence and forced removal of an endearing chimpanzee who was secretly regarded as a family member and who Rosemary loved as a sister.- place hold (0)
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Bring up the bodies : a novel2012
Summary: "Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has failed to give him a son and her sharp intelligence and audacious will alienate his old friends and... more »- place hold (0)
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The sense of an ending2011
Summary: This intense new novel follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he has never much thought about until his oldest friends return with a vengeance, one of them from the grave another... more »- place hold (0)
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Wolf Hall : a novel2009
Summary: Amazon Best of the Month, October 2009: No character in the canon has been writ larger than Henry VIII, but that didn't stop Hilary Mantel. She strides through centuries, past acres of novels,... more »- place hold (0)
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The white tiger : a novel2008
Summary: Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells the terrible and... more »- place hold (0)
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Midnight's children : a novel2006
Summary: The life of a man born at the moment of India's independence becomes inextricably linked to that of his nation and is a whirlwind of disasters and triumphs that mirror modern India's course, in a... more »- place hold (0)
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The inheritance of loss2006
Summary: Kiran Desai's first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published to unanimous acclaim in over twenty-two countries. Now Desai takes us to the northeastern Himalayas where a rising insurgency... more »- place hold (0)
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The sea2005
Summary: The author of The Untouchable ("contemporary fiction gets no better than this"-Patrick McGrath, The New York Times Book Review) now gives us a luminous novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable... more »- place hold (0)
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Life of Pi : a novel2003
Summary: Pi Patel, having spent an idyllic childhood in Pondicherry, India, as the son of a zookeeper, sets off with his family at the age of sixteen to start anew in Canada, but his life takes a marvelous... more »- place hold (0)
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The blind assassin2000
Summary: Margaret Atwood takes the art of storytelling to new heights in a dazzling new novel that unfolds layer by astonishing layer and concludes in a brilliant and wonderfully satisfying twist.For the past... more »- place hold (0)
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Disgrace1999
Summary: From the author of Waiting for the Barbarians and the Booker-Prize-winning Life & Times of Michael K, a dazzling new novel--his first in five yearsDisgrace--set in post-apartheid Cape Town and on... more »- place hold (0)
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Amsterdam1999
Summary: On a chilly February day, two old friends meet in the throng outside a crematorium to pay their last respects to Molly Lane.Both Clive Linley and Vernon Halliday had been Molly's lovers in the days... more »- place hold (0)
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The god of small things1997
Summary: "They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how. And how much. "The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the... more »- place hold (0)
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Sacred hunger1993
Summary: Winner of the 1992 Booker Prize for Fiction: "Possibly the best novel I've read in the last decade."-David Halberstam Sacred Hunger is a stunning and engrossing exploration of power,... more »- place hold (0)
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The English patient : a novel1993
Summary: "With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. The... more »- place hold (0)
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The remains of the day1990
Summary: The novel's narrator, Stevens, is a perfect English butler who tries to give his narrow existence form and meaning through the self-effacing, almost mystical practice of his profession. In a career... more »- place hold (0)
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