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| The Sellout |
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Paul Beatty
Library Journal Dickens, CA, is so embarrassing yet so inconsequential that it has disappeared from the map. ...More |
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| 2013 |
| The Luminaries |
Eleanor Catton
Library Journal Step into the world of 1886 and New Zealand's goldfields in this Man Booker Prize-winnin...More |
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| 2012 |
| Bring Up the Bodies |
Hilary Mantel
Publishers Weekly When last we saw Thomas Cromwell, hero of Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf ...More |
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| 2011 |
| The Sense of An Ending |
Julian Barnes
Book list At once commanding and subtle, Barnes has created a refined novel intensely suspenseful in its emot...More |
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| 2010 |
| The Finkler Question |
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Howard Jacobson
Library Journal In tribute to his childhood pal, Samuel Finkler, Julian Treslove, a former BBC arts producer...More |
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| 2009 |
| Wolf Hall: A Novel |
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Hilary Mantel
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: Starred Review. As Henry VIII's go-to man for his dirty work, Thomas Cromwell (1485–1540 ...More |
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| 2008 |
| The White Tiger |
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Aravind Adiga
Publishers Weekly
: Starred Review. A brutal view of India's class struggles is cunningly presented in Adiga' ...More |
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| 2007 |
| The Gathering |
Anne Enright
Library Journal
: It seems that large, extended families are brought together for two events, weddings and funerals, ...More |
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| 2006 |
| The Inheritance of Loss |
Kiran Desai
Library Journal: A shell of his once imposing self, retired magistrate Patel retreats from society to live on what w ...More |
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| 2005 |
| The Sea |
John Banville
Library Journal: âI have carried the memory of that moment through a whole half century, as if it were the emb ...More |
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| 2004 |
| The Line of Beauty |
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Alan Hollinghurst
Publishers Weekly
: Among its other wonders, this almost perfectly written novel, recently longlisted for the Mann B ...More |
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| 2003 |
| Vernon God Little |
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DBC Pierre
Library Journal
: Published to critical acclaim in England, this first novel is a satirical look at contemporary Ame ...More |
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| 2002 |
| Life of Pi |
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Yann Martel
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: Named for a swimming pool in Paris the Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel begins this extraordin ...More |
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| 2000 |
| The Blind Assassin |
Margaret Atwood
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: Atwood does not mess around in her riveting new tale: by the end of the first sentence, we know th ...More |
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| 1999 |
| Disgrace |
J M Coetzee
Library Journal
: The "disgrace" of the title belongs to David Lurie, a white, middle-aged professor at Ca ...More |
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| 1998 |
| Amsterdam |
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Ian McEwan
Library Journal Two lovers of feisty Molly Lane, both influential men, make a pact upon her death that leads ...More |
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| 1997 |
| The God of Small Things |
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Arundhati Roy
Publishers Weekly With sensuous prose, a dreamlike style infused with breathtakingly beautiful images and kee...More |
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| 1996 |
| Last Orders |
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Graham Swift
Kirkus Britisher Swift's sixth novel (Ever After, 1992 etc.) and fourth to appear here is a slow-to-start...More |
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| 1995 |
| The Ghost Road |
Pat Barker
Publishers Weekly The Booker Prize recently awarded to Barker for this book, the culmination of her astonishi...More |
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| 1994 |
| How Late It Was, How Late |
James Kelman
Publisher's Weekly
: Set in Glasglow and written in dialect, Scottish novelist Kelman's controversial black comedy w ...More |
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| 1993 |
| Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha |
Roddy Doyle
Publishers Weekly
: Doyle's Booker Prize-winning novel, told from the perspective of Irish, working-class 10-year-ol ...More |
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| 1992 |
| The English Patient |
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Michael Ondaatje
Publishers Weekly
: Canadian author Ondaatje offers a poetic novel set in a desolate Italian villa in the final days ...More |
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| 1992 |
| Sacred Hunger |
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Barry Unsworth
Publishers Weekly This vast, vividly realistic historical novel follows the crew of a slave-trading vessel fr...More |
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| 1991 |
| The Famished Road |
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Ben Okri
Publishers Weekly Teeming with fevered, apocalyptic visions as well as harrowing scenes of violence and wretc...More |
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| 1990 |
| Possession |
A S Byatt
Publishers Weekly
: Two contemporary scholars, each studying one of two Victorian poets, reconstruct their subjects' ...More |
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| 1989 |
| The Remains of the Day |
Kazuo Ishiguro
Publishers Weekly
: Stevens, an elderly butler who has spent 30 years in the service of Lord Darlington, ruminates o ...More |
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| 1988 |
| Oscar and Lucinda |
Peter Carey
Choice There are two main strands in Carey's novel; the relationship between the two compulsive gamblers ...More |
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| 1987 |
| Moon Tiger |
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Penelope Lively
Book list Lively's Booker Prize-winning novel, in which an elderly historian reflects on her life and wor...More |
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| 1986 |
| The Old Devils |
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Kingsley Amis
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: ``The Old Devils'' are aged drinking partners whose number is enlarged and enlivened when poet Alu ...More |
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| 1985 |
| The Bone People |
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Keri Hume
Publishers Weekly
: Winner of the 1985 Booker Prize, this novel by a New Zealander of Maori, Scottish and English an ...More |
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| 1984 |
| Hotel du Lac |
Anita Brookner
Publishers Weekly The winner of the 1984 Booker Prize, this novel tells the story of Edith Hope, 40, unmarrie...More |
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| 1981 |
| Midnights Children |
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Salman Rushdie
Kirkus When Indian novelist Rushdie arrived with Grimus in 1979 we called him "an imagination to watch.&...More |
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| 1980 |
| Rites of Passage |
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William Golding
Kirkus A different sort of Golding novel--at least until his familiar themes rise all too clearly (and rather...More |
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| 1979 |
| Offshore |
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Penelope Fitzgerald
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: Fitzgerald was red hot in 1998. Not only did her most recent work, The Blue Flower, win top fictio ...More |
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| 1978 |
| The Sea, the Sea |
Iris Murdoch
Kirkus There is a faint smell of fire and brimstone when something of the past comes tearing to the surface v...More |
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| 1976 |
| Saville |
David Storey
Kirkus Here is a new novel of Dickensian scope and Flaubertian restraint that one reads with the instant trus...More |
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| 1975 |
| Heat and Dust |
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Nadine Gordimer
Kirkus Jhabvala's eighth novel intertwines two stories of two Indias over half a century, and what the bo...More |
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| 1974 |
| The Conservationist |
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Nadine Gordimer
Kirkus A novel with the same carefully exhaled quality of Gordimer's short stories -- less like storytell...More |
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| 1973 |
| The Seige of Krishnapur |
J G Farrell
Kirkus An isolated British garrison falls prey to the 1857 Sepoy rebellion. The native Indian mutineers never...More |
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| 1972 |
| G |
John Berger
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