man booker prize

When the 2019 Booker Prize longlist was announced, Deedi (@deedireads) challenged herself to read them over a year. Reading this prize-winning literature ended up changing her reading life forever.

Each year, this literary award (Booker Prize) for fiction is one of the most prestigious literary prizes given to an author. This prize is awarded to what is the best novel of the year written in the English language and published in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. It is a prize that can transform the winner's career. It can also change a reader's life.

We will be discussing Deedi's favorite Man Booker International Prize winners and how we can join her fun book club challenge on The StoryGraph.  She shares her Booker of the Month details and where other readers can take this challenge with her.

Mentioned in this episode:

The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams

The Reading List Book Chat

The Best Psychological Thriller Books to Read

DeediReads

The Booker Prizes

Women’s Prize for Fiction

National Book Award

The Hugo Awards

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Booker of the Month

Bernie Lombardi on Instagram

Literary Award Lounge Discord Server

The StoryGraph

Book Gang Podcast: How The StoryGraph Can Enhance Your Reading Life

How to Use The StoryGraph For A Better Reading Life

Fables Books Challenge

Alex Awards

Binge Mode

Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead

Bewilderment by Richard Powers

My Sister The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

Redhead by the Side of the Road by Anne Tyler

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo

The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson

Lanny by Max Porter

Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann

The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste

Deedi on Instagram

Deedi Speaking

Deedi on Twitter

Deedi’s Newsletter

From Deedi’s Couch

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The author of some two dozen novels under both his own name and an alliterative pseudonym, John Banville is best known for his book The Sea, which won the 2005 Man Booker Prize. His work has also been recognized with the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Achievement in Irish Literature, and the Franz Kafka Prize, among numerous other honors. He and host Ted Fox sat down to brunch last November during John’s time as a short-term visitor at Notre Dame’s Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies. Their conversation started with a reading from The Sea, and they then talked about everything from the writing process and what makes a hero to the bet John’s accountant placed on him when he was a longshot to win the Booker Prize. Along the way, he just happened to share what he believes to be the greatest invention in the history of humankind.