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Life's too short for bad books. This blog combines 'best book' lists with prize winning books to create a tool to assist browsing in a library or bookshop for something decent to read. In construction at present - any suggestions welcome.
Thursday, 10 May 2018
Tuesday, 27 March 2018
Waterstones Book of the Year
2017
La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One by Philip Pullman Illustrated by Chris Wormell
Shortlist
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo
A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge
The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane Illustrated by Jackie Morris
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Mr Lear by Jenny Uglow
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy by Yanis Varoufakis
2016
Winner
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
Shortlist
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
The Optician of Lampedusa by Emma-Jane Kirby
The Tale of Kitty in Boots by Beatrix Potter Illustrated by Quentin Blake
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by JK Rowling , John Tiffany & Jack Thorne
2015
Winner
The Fox and The Star by Coralie Bickford-Smith
Shortlist
SPQR by Mary Beard
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
The Shepherd's Life by James Rebanks
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
2014
Winner
The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
Shortlist
Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
Once Upon An Alphabet by Oliver Jeffers
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories by Marina Keegan
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
2013
Winner
Stoner by John Williams
Shortlist
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Levels of Life by Julian Barnes
The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil by Stephen Collins
Maps by Aleksandra Mizielinska & Daniel Mizielinski
Love, Nina by Nina Stibbe
2012
Winner
POLPO by Russell Norman
Shortlist
HHhH by Laurent Binet
Patrick Leigh-Fermor: An Adventure by Artemis Cooper
On The Map by Simon Garfield
The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane
Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One by Philip Pullman Illustrated by Chris Wormell
Shortlist
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls by Elena Favilli & Francesca Cavallo
A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge
The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane Illustrated by Jackie Morris
Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Mr Lear by Jenny Uglow
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy by Yanis Varoufakis
2016
Winner
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
Shortlist
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
The Optician of Lampedusa by Emma-Jane Kirby
The Tale of Kitty in Boots by Beatrix Potter Illustrated by Quentin Blake
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by JK Rowling , John Tiffany & Jack Thorne
2015
Winner
The Fox and The Star by Coralie Bickford-Smith
Shortlist
SPQR by Mary Beard
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
The Shepherd's Life by James Rebanks
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
2014
Winner
The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton
Shortlist
Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
Once Upon An Alphabet by Oliver Jeffers
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories by Marina Keegan
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
2013
Winner
Stoner by John Williams
Shortlist
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Levels of Life by Julian Barnes
The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil by Stephen Collins
Maps by Aleksandra Mizielinska & Daniel Mizielinski
Love, Nina by Nina Stibbe
2012
Winner
POLPO by Russell Norman
Shortlist
HHhH by Laurent Binet
Patrick Leigh-Fermor: An Adventure by Artemis Cooper
On The Map by Simon Garfield
The Old Ways by Robert Macfarlane
Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Tuesday, 13 March 2018
Man Booker International Prize 2018
Longlist
The 7th Function of Language by Laurent Binet
The Impostor by Javier Cercas
Vernon Subutex 1 by Virginie Despentes
Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
Die, My Love by Ariana Harwicz
The White Book by Han Kang
The World Goes On by László Krasznahorkai
The Stolen Bicycle by Wu Ming-Yi
Like a Fading Shadow by Antonio Munoz Molina
The Flying Mountain by Christoph Ransmayr
Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi
Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
The Dinner Guest by Gabriela Ybarra
The Impostor by Javier Cercas
Vernon Subutex 1 by Virginie Despentes
Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck
Die, My Love by Ariana Harwicz
The White Book by Han Kang
The World Goes On by László Krasznahorkai
The Stolen Bicycle by Wu Ming-Yi
Like a Fading Shadow by Antonio Munoz Molina
The Flying Mountain by Christoph Ransmayr
Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi
Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
The Dinner Guest by Gabriela Ybarra
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