Halloween Reads
poll: What year's Booker shortlist should we focus on for our second group read (February - April 2017)?

1980
Rites of Passage, William Golding
A Month in the Country, J.L. Carr
Clear Light of Day, Anita Desai
Earthly Powers, Anthony Burgess
No Country for Young Men, Julia O'Faolain
Pascali's Island, Barry Unsworth
The Beggar Maid, Alice Munro

1981
Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
Good Behaviour, Molly Keane
Loitering with Intent, Muriel Spark
Rhine Journey, Ann Schlee
The Comfort of Strangers, Ian McEwan
The Sirian Experiments, Doris Lessing
The White Hotel, D.M. Thomas

1985
The Bone People, Keri Hulme
Illywacker, Peter Carey
Last Letters from Hav, Jan Morris
The Battle of Pollocks Crossing, J.L. Carr
The Good Apprentice, Iris Murdoch
The Good Terrorist, Doris Lessing

1988
Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey
Nice Work, David Lodge
The Beginning of Spring, Penelope Fitzgerald
The Lost Father, Marina Warner
The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie
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