June selection: Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet. May selection: After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz. Zoom chat: 4/23 ( NOTE: This is a Sunday, not a Monday like usual!) Zoom chat: 3/27Īpril selection: The Colony by Audrey Magee. March selection: Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer.

Optional: Prep for February by reading Anything is Possible (Amgash, #2) by Elizabeth Stroutįebruary selection: Oh, William! (Amgash, #3)* by Elizabeth Strout. January selection: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida* by Shehan Karunatilaka. Optional: Prep for February by reading My Name Is Lucy Barton (Amgash, #1) by Elizabeth Strout Note: These two books are only 270 pages combined! Zoom chat: 11/28ĭecember selection: Small Things Like These* by Claire Keegan AND Treacle Walker* by Alan Garner (not published in the US get free shipping from the UK here). November selection: Glory* by NoViolet Bulawayo. Key date: October 17, 2021: Booker Prize winner announced October selection: The Trees* by Percival Everett. Key date: September 6, 2022: Booker Prize shortlist announced

September selection: Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley. Key date: July 26, 2022: Booker Prize longlist announcedĪugust selection: Trust by Hernan Diaz. We typically meet via Zoom on the last Monday of the month (unless holidays get in the way!) at 8 PM ET. Here’s the reading schedule and key dates for the 2022 longlist. So now that we have the 2022 longlist (and it’s a really good one), it’s time to go again!

In short, it’s everything I could have hoped for. Many of us became friends along the way, and I met people whom I’d never have otherwise! This way is so much better than when I did it on my own. I was excited to do it all again for the 2020 longlist - but that time, I wanted to bring others along for the ride.įor two full award years now, a ton of people joined me in reading the 20 longlists together. I had drunk the Booker Prize kool-aid, friends. It was one of the most fulfilling projects I’ve taken on as a reader. When the 2019 Booker Prize longlist was announced, I challenged myself to read them all over the following year, before the next year’s longlist was announced. For some, the Booker Prize longlist, shortlist, and winner announcements are as exciting as any film or music award ceremony. The Booker Prize is arguably the most prestigious award in literary fiction, having recognized “the finest fiction” written in English over the last 50 years.

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