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What year's Booker shortlist should we focus on for our third group read (May - July 2017)?
1990
Possession, A.S. Byatt
Amongst Women, John McGahern
An Awfully Big Adventure, Beryl Bainbridge
Lies of Silence, Brian Moore
Solomon Gursky Was Here, Mordecai Richler
The Gate of Angels, Penelope Fitzgerald
1994
How Late It Was, How Late, James Kelman
Beside the Ocean of Time, George Mackay Brown
Knowledge of Angels, Jill Paton Walsh
Paradise, Abdulrazak Gurnah
Reef, Romesh Gunesekera
The Folding Star, Alan Holinghurst
1997
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
Europa, Tim Parks
Grace Notes, Bernard MacLaverty
Quarantine, Jim Crace
The Essence of the Thing, Madelaine St. John
The Underground Man, Mick Jackson
1999
Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee
Fasting, Feasting, Anita Desai
Headlong, Michael Frayn
Our Fathers, Andrew O'Hagan
The Blackwater Lightship, Colm Toibin
The Map of Love, Ahdaf Soueif
1990
Possession, A.S. Byatt
Amongst Women, John McGahern
An Awfully Big Adventure, Beryl Bainbridge
Lies of Silence, Brian Moore
Solomon Gursky Was Here, Mordecai Richler
The Gate of Angels, Penelope Fitzgerald
1994
How Late It Was, How Late, James Kelman
Beside the Ocean of Time, George Mackay Brown
Knowledge of Angels, Jill Paton Walsh
Paradise, Abdulrazak Gurnah
Reef, Romesh Gunesekera
The Folding Star, Alan Holinghurst
1997
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
Europa, Tim Parks
Grace Notes, Bernard MacLaverty
Quarantine, Jim Crace
The Essence of the Thing, Madelaine St. John
The Underground Man, Mick Jackson
1999
Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee
Fasting, Feasting, Anita Desai
Headlong, Michael Frayn
Our Fathers, Andrew O'Hagan
The Blackwater Lightship, Colm Toibin
The Map of Love, Ahdaf Soueif
1990
1997
1999
1994
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What a difficult choice! I'm going with 1990, because I've wanted to reread Possession and to read Gate of Angels and Amongst Women. But I'm always eager to learn reactions to Kelman's How Late It Was, How Late.
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I voted for 1997 because I suggested it but I'd be happy with any of them.
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I was originally going to vote for 1990, but then '97 piqued my interest. I guess I'll end up happy either way the poll goes....
Hmmmm, I feel a tad guilty voting as I haven't managed to join in much with the others but I can't resist a 1990 vote.
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Either way, I'm sure it will be fun!
As a reminder, this vote closes tomorrow, midnight, Pacific Standard Time.
One of my motivations in this vote was that I'd like to read some Beryl Bainbridge. She has several books on Booker long and short lists but I have never heard of her.
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