Books

We are reading through the Booker Award winners, in reverse chronological order.

Next book for November 2010:
1993 - Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle



2008 The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga [discussed April 2009]
2007 The Gathering by Anne Enright [discussed  previously]
2006 The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai [read Sept 2009]2005 The Sea by John Banville [discussed  October 2009]
2004 The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst [discussed  November 2009]
2003 Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre [read December 2009]2002 Life of Pi by Yann Martel [discussed February 2010]
2001 True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey [discussed March 2010]
2000 The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood [discussed April 12, 2000]
1999 Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee [discussed May 16, 2010]
1998 Amsterdam: A Novel by Ian McEwan [discussed June 13, 2010]
1997 The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy [discussed July 18, 2010]
1996 Last Orders by Graham Swift - [discussed August 8, 2010]
1995 The Ghost Road by Pat Barker
1994 How Late It Was, How Late by James Kelman
1993 Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle
1992 The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje (co-winner)
1992 Sacred Hunger by Barry Unsworth (co-winner)
1991 The Famished Road by Ben Okri
1990 Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt
1989 The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
1988 Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
1987 Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
1986 The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis
1985 The Bone People by Keri Hulme
1984 Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner
1983 Life & Times of Michael K by J. M. Coetzee
1982 Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
1981 Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
1980 Rites of Passage by William Golding
1979 Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald
1978 The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch
1977 Staying on by Paul Scott
1976 Saville by David Storey
1975 Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
1974 The Conservationist by Nadine Gordimer
1973 The Siege of Krishnapur by J. G. Farrell
1972 G. by John Berger
1971 In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul
1970 The Elected Member by Bernice. Rubens
1969 Something to Answer For by P. H. Newby