Oh Man (Booker)

 One thing (among many, it's true) I look forward to each year is the release of the long list of nominees for the Man Booker Prize.  From the Booker website:

The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK and Ireland. It is a prize that transforms the winner’s career.

The winner receives £50,000 as well as the £2,500 awarded to each of the six shortlisted authors. Both the winner and the shortlisted authors are guaranteed a global readership plus a dramatic increase in book sales.

I like to see what has already been added to our collection or is on order and what titles I missed (but will be added).  This year of the thirteen titles, we already owned three and two were on order.  Seven of the titles were available either on Hoopla or Overdrive to download and the balance will be ordered, with the exception of "The Fortune Men," which for some reason isn't available from our book distributor.  Here's the list with notes:  

The 2021 longlist, or ‘The Booker Dozen’, of 13 novels, is:

• A Passage North, Anuk Arudpragasam (Granta Books, Granta Publications) new order
• Second Place, Rachel Cusk, (Faber) new order OD audiobook
• The Promise, Damon Galgut, (Chatto & Windus, Vintage, PRH) new order Hoopla ebook
• The Sweetness of Water, Nathan Harris (Tinder Press, Headline, Hachette Book Group) already on order OD ebook
• Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber) in HTL collection and on OD as ebook and audiobook
• An Island, Karen Jennings (Holland House Books) new order
• A Town Called Solace, Mary Lawson (Chatto & Windus, Vintage, PRH) new order
• No One is Talking About This, Patricia Lockwood (Bloomsbury Circus, Bloomsbury Publishing) new order and OD Audiobook
• The Fortune Men, Nadifa Mohamed (Viking, Penguin General, PRH) not yet available
• Bewilderment, Richard Powers (Hutchinson Heinemann, PRH) new order
• China Room, Sunjeev Sahota (Harvill Secker, Vintage, PRH) new order OD audiobook
• Great Circle, Maggie Shipstead (Doubleday, Transworld Publishers, PRH) in HTL collecition OD ebook and OD audiobook
• Light Perpetual, Francis Spufford (Faber) in HTL collection

Good weekend to all.  Relax, bake (how 'bout a blueberry cake??!!) , read, repeat.  And probably wash your hands.  A lot.